Collaboration Across the Globe

Filed Under: Company Culture, Cool Technology, Google, Working in China

One really cool thing about working at Google is the amount of collaboration that takes place between different offices. I can’t speak for all the products and services, but the product I work with has people in several offices. There’s a lot of collaboration between the development team, global services, customer support, marketing, legal, etc…  [...]

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Serving Breakfast at Work Today

Filed Under: Company Culture, Google, Google Shanghai

When I got to work this morning, I saw caterers busy in the kitchen preparing various trays of food! I was surprised because they usually come around 10ish to prepare for lunch, but today, it was only 8 and they were already preparing food! I asked what the occasion was and they said as part [...]

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Mobsters iPhone Playdom IDs to Grow Your Mob

Filed Under: Fun Stuff, Games, Games, and Games!, Lists

Recently, I’ve been playing the Mobsters: Big Apple app on the iPhone. It’s an online multiplayer mafia game where you complete missions, build territories, earn money, buy equipments, grow your mob, and fight with other mobs.
I’m not usually into this type of games, but Mobsters really grew on me. I guess it’s a nice 5 [...]

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iPhone OS 3 Built-in Chinese Pinyin IME Works Poorly

Filed Under: Google, Google Products, Language & Translation

The other day, I wrote about how easy it was to use Google Pinyin to input Chinese characters on the computer. Originally, I wanted to write a post about how bad the iPhone’s built-in Chinese pinyin input method was but I needed to provide a basis for comparison. So, I wrote a post about using [...]

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Fixing Wordpress Allowed Memory Size

Filed Under: Blogging, Tips & Tricks, Tutorials/How-Tos, WordPress

I tried upgrading to WordPress 2.9 and got this error message:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted
To fix this memory size error, follow the instructions below:

Open and edit the wp-settings.php file using notepad.
Search for:define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘32M’);
Change 32M to 64M :define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘64M’);

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Joining the Society of Technical Communication (STC)

Filed Under: Technical Communication/Writing

I joined the Society of Technical Communication (STC) back in September when I first joined Google. This is my first time joining STC and the experience has not been positive. The membership fee for people outside of the U.S. is a lot more expensive due to the supposedly extra cost of international mailing. I paid [...]

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Vote for Barbie the Computer Engineer

Filed Under: Fun Stuff

This is totally random, but I came across a link to the Barbie website where you can vote for Barbie’s next career. Among the five choices is a computer engineer! I’m disappointed that technical writer didn’t make the ballot, but I’m somewhat thrilled that the not-so-great-of-a-role model-for-girls doll finally got her head straightened and is [...]

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Scaling the Great Firewall of China

Filed Under: Blogging, China Policies & Regulations, Google, Google Products, Google Shanghai, Internet Security, Living in China, Shanghai & China, Software & Tools

There’s a lot of news coverage lately about Google’s recent announcement to stop censoring search results on google.cn. I’ve received a lot of inquiries from family, friends, and readers about what’s happening, what’s going to happen, whether Google China offices are closing, and whether I still have my job. If you’re here to read or [...]

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Shanghai Tech Writer Made Top 25 Technical Writing Blog!

Filed Under: Blogging, Lists, Technical Communication/Writing

Here goes a little horn-tooting and shameless self-promotion post! I came across a list of Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs, and Shanghai Tech Writer made #10 on the ultimate rank list!

It also made #2 by RSS membership, #6 by unique monthly visitors, #2 by the number of pages posted on the blog, #9 [...]

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Using Google Pinyin Input Method

Filed Under: Google Products, Language & Translation, Software & Tools, Useful Resources

I use Google Pinyin IME to type Chinese characters on the computer. I can’t handwrite Chinese characters very well, but I can recognize most characters. Using pinyin to type out Chinese characters is very easy! All I need to do is sound out the Chinese characters and spell them out using the English alphabet. For [...]

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