Miscellaneous Ramblings

Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Working in China

Working on a Sunday
Today is Sunday and it’s a work day  here at the Shanghai office. Actually, only half the people are at the office today. Thursday was Dragon Boat Festival (holiday in China), so the company gave us a three-day weekend, substituting Friday workday with Sunday. We were all supposed to come in [...]

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Internet Usage: China vs. U.S.

Filed Under: Cultural Differences, Shanghai & China, Stats & Analytics

The Business Insider came out with a chart showing the differences in Internet activities between China and the United States. China has about 300 million Internet users, surpassing the United States as the most number of Internet users in the world.

Comments About the Chart

The majority of Chinese Internet users use the Internet for entertainment [...]

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Backronym: When the English and the French Disagree

Filed Under: Characteristics, Fun Stuff, Grammar & Style, Language & Translation, Technical Communication/Writing

Word of the Day:  Backronym
A reverse acronym, a phrase constructed after the fact to make an existing word or words into an acronym.

The past few weeks, I have been busy fixing lots of documentation CARs (our internal bug tracking system). As we are getting close to the release of LabVIEW 2009, we have to make [...]

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Sim City Shanghai: 3D Map of Shanghai

Filed Under: Cool Technology, Fun Stuff, Games, Games, and Games!, Living in China, Photos/Videos, Shanghai & China

When I was in high school, two of my favorite computer games were SimCity Classic and SimCity 2000, by Maxis. Maxis is the same company that released SimTower, SimEarth, SimAnt, a few more versions of SimCity, The Sims, The Sims 2, and most recently, Spore. These games are all simulation-type games where players act like [...]

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Check Your Website Performance Around the World

Filed Under: Shanghai & China, Software & Tools, Stats & Analytics, Useful Resources

Want to know how long it takes to load your website from different parts of the world? Use InternetSupervision to monitor your site’s performance from around the world. 
Shanghai Tech Writer blog is hosted on BlueHost in the U.S. but I live and work in Shanghai, China. Based on the report, shown below, it appears [...]

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Fun Intel Core 2 Quad Video Ads in China

Filed Under: Fun Stuff, Photos/Videos, Shanghai & China

Intel invested a lot in making viral videos for the Chinese market. Check out some of these fun-to-watch videos!

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Gantter: Free Project Management Tool

Filed Under: National Instruments, Software & Tools, Useful Resources

Lifehacker featured an online project management tool that is free, robust, and easy to use! Gantter is a web-based project management tool that looks very similar to Microsoft Project, but is so much easier to use. You can create, import, and export project files, including projects created in MS Project.  

I created a sample [...]

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Gmail Lab: Suggest Email Recipients

Filed Under: Tips & Tricks, Tutorials/How-Tos, Useful Resources

Gmail Lab came out with a new feature that helps you to suggest more people you might want to send an email to. When you send an email to a group of people, whether family, friends, or colleagues, it’s easy to forget someone if you don’t use an email distribution list. You’d have to [...]

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