Looking out of the window of the bus I noticed there are many satellite dishes attached to the balconies of the big buildings.
In Holland satellite dishes mostly imply that it’s an apartment occupied by immigrants who like to watch tv in their native language.
In Shanghai, I have the feeling, it means seeing more than just the Chinese channels.
You can find now an English Zoomable map of Beijing on the website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
It’s pretty nice and detailed with main roads, the Olympic locations and other landmarks.
You have the option to download a screenshot of the map (a your zoom level) and I liked the option to draw lines on the map, using the scale option to measure distances between points.
Unfortunately the menu bar items, like scale, save etc don’t seem to work in Firefox.
Check it out.
Just ran into a sound board for China. You can click the map and hear the sounds of different parts of China. Ranging from industrial noise in Chongqing to the construction of the Olympic swimming pool in Beijing.
Start listening
I just upgraded WordPress to version 2.0.7 and if you haven’t done so, don’t wait too long as you don’t want to be hacked.
You can download it here.
I got a couple of emails today and I suddenly noticed a trend. They were all written by Chinese in English, all very polite but they all ended with ‘Please reply ASAP’
It maybe a cultural difference and likely not intentional but shouting ‘Please reply ASAP‘ to me, is a sure way I’ll take my time before I reply.
The Internet in China is still at snail speed and for some weird reason it gets worse in the evening.
Is everybody trying to play games after 18:00? Is the available bandwidth less in the evening to cut cost for China Telecom’s use of satellite back ups or is there another explanation for this?
The news is that it will take until the end of the month to make the great leap back to 2007 but it wouldn’t surprise me if we may linger a bit longer in 1997.
It’s not an important medium anyway, I can’t recall any business, let alone individuals that actually rely on it and China is scientifically & technologically advanced enough to do without.
Recruiting staff in China is not hindered by “weird” laws that tell you not to discriminate on age, sex etc. And if these laws exist, if so, fill me in, companies don’t seem to really care.
You want to hire a hot, Shanghainese, single employee between 20 and 21, light skin color, minimum height 1.65 and a max weight 50 kg, go ahead.
You want to hire a blackman that can dance? No problem.
Just advertise in one of many online and off line classifieds magazines
Ad scanned from the print version of Enjoy Classifieds
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