Catshanghai

This is a dictionary with a clean interface, pictures, sounds, synonyms and there is even a hangman game. There is nothing new here, but it does it very well. It offers users the chance to attach pictures to words they view. You can find any piece of vocabulary by entering http://word.sc/ followed by the word [...]

Here is the scenario. It’s a typical, sunny day in LA. Loving husband gets up early to give his wife a cup of coffee before she drives to work. Minutes after she leaves, LA is devastated by a series of dirty bombs causing panic and confusion as the city is shrouded in a cloud of [...]

I’ll always be young, because I’ll always be younger than Sonic Youth and Madonna.

I’m really happy today. I’ve just heard from Msittig that Sonic Youth will play Shanghai at the Concert Hall on April 24th. I will always love Sonic Youth even though their recent albums have been rather dull. Sonic Youth were wonderful in [...]

Each culture has its own tastes and expectations and that extends to cakes for special occasions such as birthdays and weddings. I love Chinese food, but the local bakeries often make sickly sweet cakes that are full of cream textured like shaving foam. In short, I miss the delicious bread and cakes that I used [...]

I have spent some time this week updating Jenny’s website. I switched over to a Wordpress driven blog site to make it easier to add images from a Flickr account I setup to host her pictures.
Jenny is my wife and one of the most exciting fashion designers in Shanghai at the moment. She tends to [...]

Since when has it been OK for Steve Jobs to criticise his customer base? He should be providing constructive leadership on how to use technology to improve learning in the classroom rather than bashing teachers for problems in American education.

Unionization, said Jobs in reports filed by both the Associated Press and the Austin American-Statesman, [...]

February 21st in Shanghai feels a lot like December 28th in England. Lots of shops and businesses are still shut and my stomach is aching from all the food that I have eaten over the last few days. In between the frequent barrage of firecrackers and rockets, there is an eery silence that makes Shanghai [...]

It is wrong or at least illegal to steal music, but high prices and unfair copy protection make piracy a rational choice for many Internet users who steal songs from online file sharing services. The solution is to offer legitimate low cost alternatives without DRM. AllofMP3 offers low cost downloads, but the artists do not [...]

All the podcast aristocracy are currently talking about a web tool called Twitter.
I first found out about it on the Boag World netcast at the end of 2006, but for two months it seemed like another meaningless way of wasting time on the Internet. It has one purpose, which is to tell the world what [...]

I have been taking Google for granted for granted since the turn of the decade. This search engine project was started by Larry Page and Sergey Grin in 1998 during their Stanford days as post graduate computer science students. They had such a simple and effective idea to index web pages better than anyone [...]