Catshanghai

One of the best things about working in an international school is being able to learn about the different cultures that are part of our community.
Today we celebrated International Day, which is an annual event where we all get a chance to dress up in our national costumes, sample each other’s food, listen to each [...]

Today I have been having learning the balck arts of customising my blog engine called Wordpress.
Wordpress 2 allows the customisation of themes to accommodate sidebar widgets such as flickr image integration and the sequence for displaying links, recent posts and categories. I updated my hemmed theme to put all the links on the right sidebar [...]

She’s back!
Joanna Newsom is a hippie harp player from San Francisco who has a voice like a witchy child and plays with words like a cat plays with a half dead mouse.  She has just released her second album on Drag City. Her first album ‘The Milk Eyed Mender’ was full of quirky pop songs [...]

I have just finished ploughing through a season and a half of the new Battlestar Galactica in just under a week. It’s the same basic story about an alien race of fascist cybernetic warriors pursuing the last remaining human survivors after an invasion of the twelve colonies wiped everyone else out. Science fiction always tells [...]

 
Fred is a brilliant but very sneaky abseiling teacher. His method is to keep talking and make you think you are getting ready to abseil as you start descending. Before you realise what has happened, you are already half way down the cliff face. Anyway, this is the first time I have stayed in the [...]

I’m mixing my metaphors today, having spent much of today and yesterday upgrading to Moodle 1.7 and watching the first few episodes of Battlestar Galactica.
Moodle 1.7 is quite different from 1.6 from an admin point of view. There is much more control of permissions and roles for different types of users. For example, users can [...]

The virtue of Japanese food is its light, clean taste and elegant presentation in tasteful surroundings.
The Japanese restaurant at 794 Julu Lu have missed these points entirely. To start with, they need a few lessons on presentation. It is lit like a hospital waiting room and the salad was served on an ugly chipped, glass [...]

Lady Bracknell said words to the effect that to have one mishap is unlucky, whereas to have two is careless. Lady Bracknell would not be amused. She would have looked at me this week and considered me to be utterly careless or even in need of an exorcism.
I have just come back from a school [...]

Welcome back to Catshanghai.
Sorry it’s been a while. I’ve been busy.
Here are the show notes:
Culture: Interview with Jenny about Shanghai fashion
Arts: Album reviews: ‘Orkestar 2′ by Beirut, ‘Radiodread’ by Easy All Stars
Film reviews: Red Violin, Titus
Technology: Mojopac (www.mojopac.com) Logitech 350 USB headset-mic, open source content management systems
Shanghai life: Crazy traffic
Direct download: catshanghai-2.mp3