Shanghai Tech WriterTechnical Writing, Technology, Web2.0, Google, Shanghai, China

Last December, my husband and I went to She Shan for a weekend getaway. She Shan is about an hour from city center and a nice place to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life. We drove there, using the GPS on my iPhone to navigate to our destination — Le Meridien [...]

Here’s an entertaining read about the lack of an em dash key on the keyboard. Excerpt: Why care? The em-dash is a fundamental unit of punctuation. We often fake it with a couple of hyphens, but it’s dreadfully ugly. You can fake an en-dash with a hyphen, and vice versa, and nobody but a typesetter [...]

Below is an awesome time lapse video of a man who walked from Beijing to Urumqi over the course of a year, taking photos of him (and his growing beard) along the way. He also blogged about his journey every single day for an entire year! Check out his blog, The Longest Way. Share and [...]

Recent few weeks, security has tightened around the Shanghai office in light of all the news/media coverage regarding Google and China. There’s a security guard standing in the hallway between the two office entrances, making sure that everyone who enters the office has an employee badge or is accompanied by a Google employee. It’s the [...]

Around Christmas time last year, all the Google employees in the U.S. and several other countries received a Nexus One Android phone to dogfood prior to the official release. China employees had to wait for all the official paperwork and channel (strict regulations in China) to clear, which was estimated to be anywhere from several [...]

After almost two weeks of construction, the new Guanglan subway station (Line 2) finally opened! The area around Guanglan station is still a big plot of dirt/construction junk. There’s only one entrance/exit (or maybe two?) that is all cleaned up and open to passengers. Even though the new station is just one block from my [...]

Just read a translated article from ChinaHush about the life of a migrant construction worker in China. The original article in Chinese was written by a construction worker in Hainan, China. He shares his thoughts about being a migrant worker, earning 1600 RMB (~$200 USD) a month, building a luxury apartment high-rise in Sanya, Hainan [...]

Here at the Google Shanghai office, the majority of engineers are men. I can count the number of female engineers with one hand! At my last job at National Instruments, the majority of engineers are also men. However, I sat with the rest of the technical communication department where the gender ratio was almost 1:1. [...]

When I was working at GooglePlex in Mountain View a few months ago, I saw these futuristic-looking pods where tired employees can crawl inside and take a nap. How many companies do you know that allow their employees to take a nap on company time? At my last job, I got in trouble for falling [...]

Zhangjiang Hi-Tech subway station will be closed from 2/14 to 2/23 in preparation for the Line 2 extension to Guanglan Road (2 additional stations). Line 2 will eventually extend to Pudong International Airport in time for the World Expo 2010. Zhangjiang station will be closed all next week because of the connection construction that will [...]