Catshanghai

I am sitting outside Maui Coffee opposite Vervia in the Taikang Lu district of Shanghai. I have always liked Taikang Lu ever since Jenny took me here nearly three years ago. It has always been good, but in those days there wasn’t very much of it. It was a just courtyard, a converted factory and [...]

Arun’s Blog »Installing Virtualbox and Windows in Ubuntu
Step by step guide on getting XP to run as a guest operating system in Ubuntu using Virtualbox.
(tags: Ubuntu,Virtualbox,virtualisation,virtualization)

Enjoy this viral video, which is doing the rounds at the moment.

I spend at least two hours a day in buses and taxis. Having an Ipod and a Windows Mobile PDA have kept me relatively sane through many hours of difficult Shanghai commuting. I have written about my PDA before. While it often crashes and has a clunky interface, I am happy that it allows me [...]

I have just finished this week’s column for our school newsletter, which is basically a campaign to get everyone writing blogs, largely inspired by Jeff Utecht’s forays at SAS Pudong.
You may have noticed that we’ve been getting our secondary students to set up blogs or weblogs as part of their ICT classes. I want to [...]

BBC NEWS | Education | Fight cyberbullies, schools told

Schools are being given guidance urging them to take firm action against pupils who use mobile phones and the internet to bully other children and teachers.

(tags: Internet “Cyberbullying” “ITGS-education”)

- Posted by MobiBlogr from mobile phone.

I love these pictures!
See this link.
Contrast this with Will Richardson’s recent impressions of Shanghai.
And then there is the old part of Shanghai, the “real” China, the part where a restaurant may be a couple of chairs and a table on a street corner where people can sit after buying some type of meat or fish [...]

We’ve just spent an entertaining and enlightening weekend at the Learning2cn education technology conference at Concordia International School in Jingqiao.
The topics covered included podcasts, wikis, cyberbullying and making exciting lessons within a technology setting. Issues related to laptop schools may seem irrelevant to most of us, but the event is groundbreaking inasmuch as it is [...]

Shanghaiist: Unlocked iPhones now at Xujiahui
“Although the Shanghai Morning Post reported that a 4G iPhone sells for 5800RMB, we found the prices a bit higher. “William”, our salesman, informed us that the going price for an iPhone with 4GB will cost about 6300 RMB and an 8GB iPhone runs you more th
(tags: Shanghai technology Iphone)

BBC [...]

I’ve started to write a weekly column for my school newsletter to get everyone excited about technology, answer questions and give advice. I tried to make the column interactive by inviting questions and comments from readers. Anyway, I set the scene with this first article.
Computers are everywhere. We can see and enjoy their impact on [...]