I have been a fan Austin Kleon’s Newspaper Blackout Poetry since I came across them on Facebook. Last week, while walking by a newspaper stand in Guangzhou, I suddenly had the urge to give it a try myself with a Chinese newspaper. You can see how it was made on my Chinese blog or, for [...]

We have heard both from Pay4Bugs customers and testers that they needed a better way to manage the ever increasing number of bugs our testers have helped customers find. Over the weekend, we rolled out three small changes to help both customers and testers find the bugs they are looking for faster. Mark bugs as [...]

Despite what some other blogs claim restoring my jailbroken/unlocked 1st generation iPhone with 3.0 software did result in it being re-locked to AT&T making it impossible to use my China Mobile GoTone SIM. Activation with iTunes would only work with the original AT&T sim and did not work with a 3 Hong Kong SIM despite [...]

Fellow China watcher Nick Kristof has a great op-ed that looks at the relationship between three races that have traditionally enjoyed above average success in America and intelligence. His policy conclusion: “…the most decisive weapons in the war on poverty aren’t transfer payments but education, education, education.” The broader lesson: “…success depends less on intellectual [...]

The CDN Cachefly seems to be partially down.  As of 4:24pm HKT, their homepage and FTP upload server are both not responding.  Data currently deployed on their network still works fine.  Are they simply down for an update or will they be joining GM in bankruptcy court? Usually I would just post this on Twitter, [...]