Catshanghai

I looked at this site after seeing a debate on the BBC Newsnight video netcast. The debate was between Professor Andy McIntosh of Truth in Science and Professor Lewis Wolpert of the British Humanist Association. Truth in Science want to present intelligent design as a theory to be discussed alongside evolution. They have produced a [...]

I just posted this message on the Shanghai Expat message board after having a very bad experience at the Saleya Restaurant.
I’ve just had a crazy experience at the French restaurant, Saleya on Changle Lu.
My wife and I ordered the 3 plate set menu to share. The food was OK, but we had trouble when we [...]

This Guardian article shows that Marks and Spencer’s have bounced back to profits of £1 billion last enjoyed in 1997. Success was attributed to new innovative marketing campaigns, a successful restrcutring under Stuart Rose and new look shops.
They had big problems as they failed to compete with cheaper more modern high street competitors leading to [...]

This is a story from the BBC saying that the Marks and Spencer’s site tops a rank of user friendly websites among high street shops. I find this pretty amazing considering that they used to arrogantly avoid any advertising at all, trading on their exisitng reputation to be the dominant UK retailer. After ten years [...]

I have been using Skype and other VOIP services like Dialpad and Net2Phone for a number of years, but the quality of Internet calls was always awful on dial up. Instead, I used the prepay accounts where you dial a number and pincode to access very cheap calls during the daytime hours when using my [...]

Children of Men is a bleak, but thrilling story about a future society where all women are infertile and no babies have been born for over eighteen years. It is set in Britain in 2027 and human’s imminent extinction has created a culture of dispair and conflict so that the country has become a police [...]

I arrived in Shanghai in the summer of 2004. At that time, my only access to English language television content was through CCTV 9, which is a bland and filtered vehicle for news and Chinese culture. Listening to platitudes about government policy is not something I was used to, having been raised on the BBC.
Those [...]

For newcomers to Shanghai, the honeymoon of eating cheap Chinese food may soon start to wear off and you are left walking the streets in search of pizzas, burgers, pasta and even sandwiches. The Chinese taste for white sweet bread does not quite pass muster when you are missing decent French baguettes. Fortunately, Shanghai has [...]

Bond has had several incarnations over the last 44 years. First we had Sean Connery, then George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pearce Brosnan. Even David Niven tried out the role. His accent, gadgets, wardrobe and sense of humor may all have changed over this time, but Bond is essentially timeless and immortal. Criminal organisations [...]

This is Martin Scorsese’s stylish, entertaining but flawed remake of the classic Hong Kong cat and mouse thriller, Internal Affairs. The basic idea is that a gangster’s protege secretly joins the police force as an inside stooge while an undercover cop joins this gang in order to bring it down. Martin Scorsese has rewritten the Triad [...]