Catshanghai

Our new house is full of fresh, cut pineapples at the moment. We are using fruit to improve the smell of our home by filling the rooms with a sweet fragrance while gathering all the bad odours that have accumulated over three months of renvoation. Local refurbishment projects are very cheap compared to Europe so [...]

Here is the copy from my weekly ICT column in the school newsletter. I have seen students use lots of different tools and methods to take notes when they are researching information from the Internet. The most common method I have seen is to copy and paste extracts on to a Word document. There is [...]

e-Qaeda (washingtonpost.com) Video interview with Evan Kohlman about the use of the Internet by terrorist groups. (tags: Government” terrorism Internet) Technology Podcast Archive – PRI’s The World “For WTP 168, we take a look at European Union legislation that would seek to block websites deemed to be terrorist in nature. How would that work, if [...]

ITWALES.COM – Welsh woman wins case over email spying This is a story about a Welsh woman called Alison Love who won a case against her employer after they had been spying on her personal Email. (tags: surveillance”) Career Advice: Don’t Spend Half Your Work Day On Facebook And Then Brag About It A Goldman [...]

It has taken us two months and cost us nearly $25 000 USD to refurbish our new appartment near Nanpu Bridge in Shanghai. The project has not yet finished, but this is what we will get for our money. Design and project management Complete gutting and rebuild New plumbing and electric wiring New bathroom and [...]

We saw these really funny, but dark blank CD designs at a stall outside Bridge8 near Jianguo Xi Lu. Each CD only costs 10 rmb. I think they make great presents and I might get the whole set to give to students as prizes. The designs remind me of the logos on The Thing’s t-shirts [...]

China’s Great Firewall turns its attention to RSS feeds “reports have been popping up from our readers and around the web of not being able to access FeedBurner RSS feeds as early as August of this year. More recent reports tell us that the PSB appears to have extended this block to all incoming URLs [...]

I have been trying to run Windows XP as a virtual machine from Virtualbox using Ubuntu Feisty as a host. It works pretty well. I have access to most Windows XP services, including Web access, the CD/DVD drive and the sound card. Itunes even works. My big problem remains that I can not access a [...]