Archive | November, 2009

27 November 2009 ~ 80 Comments

Christmas has come early for you! (If you want a Google Wave invite for Christmas) (提前发送圣诞礼物啦!(如果你想要Google Wave邀请))

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I think I was the last person to get access to Google Wave, however now I have it I want to use up ALL of my invitations to other people before it become OPEN and everyone can use it! 我想我大概是最后一个得到Google Wave邀请的人,不过我现在有了然后我想用所有的邀请给大家,在它开放以前,每个人都可以用它! So if you want an invite, just leave a comment here saying so (as [...]

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25 November 2009 ~ 10 Comments

Let’s beat hunger – together! (对抗饥饿——一起!)

kebabman

I have Google adverts on a lot of the pages on my website. These ads are very clever, because they ‘scan’ the page that they’re on to see what sort of content it is about, and then put adverts up there accordingly. Theoretically, if I talk about buying turkey in Shanghai in an article, then [...]

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19 November 2009 ~ 27 Comments

Welcome to Shanghai (上海欢迎您 )

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The last couple of weeks have been a bit of an eye-opener for me. A new colleague arrived in my office, and it’s made me cast my mind back to the first few weeks of my time here in China. 前几个星期算是让我小开眼界了。一个新同事来了。很多情景让我回想起我刚到中国的那几个星期。 I was super-excited when I arrived in Shanghai 20 months ago – so excited [...]

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12 November 2009 ~ 20 Comments

This is almost beyond a joke… (不是开玩笑的…)

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I hate spam as much as anyone, but come on man…give me a break! 我比谁都痛恨垃圾邮件,可是……放过我吧! Is that pi?!?! 这是派吗?!?!

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10 November 2009 ~ 9 Comments

Fake DVD shop life lesson #1 (盗版DVD商店教训之一)

nicolas cage shanghai

I absolutely love our local fake DVD shop. THere are two floors of movies, music dvds, cds and tv series. The people who work in there are always funny and relaxed and they’ll be honest with you if the quality of the disc is not exactly ’100%’. 我真心喜欢我们这里的盗版DVD商店。2层楼都是电影,音乐,cd和电视剧。在那里的工作人员总是很有意思并且很放松,而且如果片子的质量不是100%的好,他们绝对会如实告诉你。 I went in last week and spent [...]

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07 November 2009 ~ 3 Comments

Blogstar.TV – Episode 2 – Party for the Party (博客之星-第2集-盛会的聚会)

I’m happy to announce that we’ve just released Episode 2 of Blogstar.TV – the web series / TV show / documentary / rockumentary that has been taking Shanghai, China and the World by storm. 非常高兴地在此隆重宣布,博客之星第2集新鲜出炉了-这部席卷全球,中国,上海的网络系列片/电视真人秀/记录片 If you like it, please do me a favour and share with your friends on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Kaixin001, RenRen, [...]

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02 November 2009 ~ 4 Comments

Customer service in Shanghai (上海客服)

sado masochism shanghai

Some people moan about customer service in Shanghai, but I found one café near my workplace which actually thanks you if you take the piss out of them! 有些人常常抱怨上海的客服,可是我发现我工作的地方旁边的一个咖啡馆,他们会感谢你如果你拿他们开玩笑! I wonder what they’d do if you didn’t pay? 我在想,如果你吃霸王餐他们会拿你怎么样?

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