Catshanghai

Shanghai has somewhere between 14 and 20 million people. Tonight, half of them seemed to be at Hymall Supermarket in Zhaojiabang Lu buying food and drink for Chinese New Year or Spring Festival. The other half are probably heading back to villages, towns and cities to see their families again. Tomorrow evening throughout China there [...]

My IGCSE ICT class is studying networks and the Internet at the moment and had to find out about spam E-mail for their homework. Recent reports suggest that approximately 90 percent of E-mails that are written are considered to be spam or unsolicited messages. It is like a constant arms race between the merchants of [...]

This story will be welcome news to anyone living in China who has ever experienced the annoying indignity of being pushed out the way as they line up to buy a metro ticket. According to the BBC, a campaign has been launched to encourage local people to queue up in an orderly and polite fashion. [...]

This is not something I have ever given much thought to beyond wiping off the dust every now and then, but our school nurse raised it as a possible cause of sickness. Our IT guru replied by giving this very useful advice:
Keyboards are pretty disgusting, bits of skin (and hair), food, spilt sugary drinks, etc, [...]

February has been a great month for films so far, so I am going to make a few recommendations.
The Queen  follows the public and private world of Britain’s royal family in the week following Princess Diana’s death in 1997. Trapped in a world of formal traditions and duty, The Queen and her family failed to tap into [...]

I have been finding it difficult to keep in touch with my friends and family, because they do not use E-mail or they are rarely around to take calls when I am awake. Therefore, I setup my own Internet telephone answering machine to make it easier to stay in contact with people from the UK. [...]

I just read this breaking news on Tech Crunch. It has also been reported on the BBC and New York Times. Steve Jobs has just published an open letter to the music industry asking it to abandon DRM on music that is purchased as downloads. This is extraordinary considering that all music bought on the [...]

Enter the sickly sweet cartoon world of Big Head Son, Small Head Father via Tudou.com, which is one of China’s many tributes to Youtube. BHS, SHF or Da Tou Erzi, Xiao Tou Baba as it is known in Chinese is set in a Shanghai that is green, hilly, polite and not overcrowded. This is a [...]

I first read about Video Jug on the Guardian technology website late last year, but I have not been able to access it since the Taiwan earthquake. Thankfully, the Internet is now working well enough in China to allow streaming media some of the time, particularly on the weekend and early mornings. Video Jug is [...]

Last night we were given free tickets to try out a class at Yoga Space in Gaoan Lu. It’s just been refurbished and has everything you would expect to find in an elegant cliche of a modern hippy lifestyle. It has calming new age music, Buddha statues, Hindu symbols, cushions and free cups of healthy [...]