business
My friend Karen and her business partner Andy have been hard at work introducing the concept of gourmet frozen yogurt to the Guangzhou consumer. Their brainchild, Yogurt Workshop, recently opened its first two stores in Guangzhou. Yogurt Workshop offers 4 flavors of frozen yogurt, Original, Green Tea, Guava and Mango.
pay4bugs
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
chinese
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
apple
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
blog
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."
blog
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
technology
A couple of weeks ago we released an update to Pay4Bugs, our software testing marketplace, that had hidden in it a small but incredibly usual new feature for those of you that have both Customer and Tester accounts. Quick Switch is a pair of tabs that appear at the top
blog
Those that know me well, or have had the opportunity (or perhaps bad luck) to travel with me know that I enjoy taking pictures. Late last year, I started looking for a place to store the over 10,000+ digital photographs I have taken over since I acquired my first
business
There is a lot of confusion about invoices in China. If you ask for an invoice from a vendor in most of the world and you will get a piece of paper issued by the vendor that lists the items or services you are buying, total amount due and terms.
technology
I saw a post a few weeks ago on Planet OpenID describing the difficulty a tech savvy user had trying to login to an OpenID-enabled site using a Yahoo!-provided OpenID. In the problem described in iwoman's post, a tech savvy user gets confused by the fact that
technology
The launch of Pay4Bugs was unique not only because it is one of the first real products launched from day one with dual stack IPv4/IPv6 access, but also because Pay4Bugs, along with its sister IPv6-enabled OpenID provider, 87id, is the first site to make possible OpenID sign on using
technology
Aaron Toponce over at Planet Ubuntu has an excellent article with graphics that really puts the vast size of the IPv6 address space in perspective in relationship to the almost used up IPv4 address space in perspective. I would just add that 64bits of the 128bit IPv6 address space do