technology
My friend Michael Michelini asked me why visitors to his blog sometimes get sent to a Russian .ru site when they try to visit his blog. He asked his IT friend about the problem and was told he couldn't replicate it. Never send an IT guy to do
china
Friend Tricia Wang is spending a year in China doing fascinating research on poor migrants and their use of technology. She recently shared an excellent write up regarding her experience undercover as a migrant on the Beijing subway. I've lived in China for several years, most of which
business
I'm a foreign entrepreneur in South China who has taken advantage of similar existing provisions in both Hong Kong and PRC law to sponsor my own work visas. The result has been a profitable business that employs Chinese, and happy founders and shareholders. If I was a Chinese
blog
I grew up in Cleveland. Like many people my age who wanted to do "more" than "just" graduate from college, get a job and have a family. I moved away from Cleveland...to South China where I own a growing technology business. A friend of mine
china
Last fall, the New York Times published an article describing the rising importance of Mandarin in Chinatown. This seemed to offend travel writer Daisann McLane, an avid student of Cantonese. She insists that Cantonese is flourishing and cites her time with certain infamous Hong Kong politicians in New York'
technology
All of our internal production sites starting in 2009 have been launched with dual stack IPv4/IPv6 from day one. We typically serve static assets (images and javascript) from our content delivery network to improve load performance. Unfortunately, the CDN we use is IPv4 only. The following Ruby on Rails
business
You should be worried when the CEO of Beijing's largest real estate company Zhang Xin has this to say: My view is that the real estate business has a lot of asset bubbles, but even with asset bubbles it doesn't mean that we are getting out
business
Quick post as I wait for my 12 inch 1/2 chicken curry 1/2 pepperoni pizza from Pizza Hut to be delivered here in Guangzhou: I was reminded tonight, yet again, by Papa John's nationwide delivery hotline why Pizza Hut does so much better in the China
business
I woke up today to the headline that Google is threatening to leave the China market in response to what it says were a series of attacks aimed at the Gmail accounts of human rights activists. First, I must admit that I am a big fan and heavy user of
pay4bugs
Just a quick note to let everyone know that a big upcoming revision of our Pay4Bugs Software Testing Service has been deployed to the testing server for testing. This update focuses on adding monthly plans which will allow us to add a whole sleuth of useful improvements in 2010 and
business
There has been plenty of news about data traffic growth caused by iPhone popular overloading networks in the USA and more recently the UK. I have been in Northern Italy for the holidays using 3 Italy's 3Power10 pre-paid SIM for the duration of my visit. I was quite
technology
For those of you that don't know, Facebook and Twitter have been blocked here in the People's Republic of China for the past several months. While most would say that this offers a lessons regarding censorship, an equally important lesson is what it teaches us about