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December 2005 Archives

Mop Acquires Donews Dec 30, 2005
The news of MOP acquiring 100% share of Donews arrived to me first from Yubo on SMS the day before yesterday. After that, many friends dropped me the news on MSN Messenger. I was not that surprised. Liuren and Keso...
Getting Back Home Late Dec 29, 2005
Getting back home late from a small gather of old friends. 2005 almost past, and it was nice for us to review the year and talk about the interesting year. Everyone is looking forward to a great 2006. I am...
Meeting Place: Starbucks, Raffles City Dec 28, 2005
Meeting Place: Starbucks, Raffles City, 268 Xizhang Middle Road, Shanghai About the Location The Starbucks at the Raffles City is not a good store in the Starbucks family. It is small and crowded. However, it is very convinient with the...
Pressure at Year End Dec 27, 2005
End of 2005 marks the enforcement of the ICP license and recordal requirements. This time, it seems they really mean it. In my previous story, I outlined the requirements for the registration for website. The first requirement came out in...
High-Tech Company Logo Plate Dec 26, 2005
Hengge and his Blogbus.com is going to move to a new warehouse in Longhua. He is obviously excited about the move and asked me for some photos of logo plate for high tech companies. He think it may inspires him...
20 RMB per Month Unlimited WAP Dec 25, 2005
It is old news already, but I think it is valuable information to visitors to Shanghai. China Mobile has decreased the price of GPRS. They are offering a package to give unlimited WAP access for 20 RMB per month. Here...
Merry Christmas for My Friends and Family Dec 25, 2005
Merry Christmas! The Christmas Eve arrives. I'd like to send my Christmas gifts to a lot of people. As the saying: "Friends are the flowers in the garden of lives." I love all my "flowers". Merry X'mas to them....
Age of Crazy Ideas Dec 23, 2005
It is moving season. Joi Ito is also moving his blog to a new machine - according to Jio, he was changing IP address. DNS always take long time to replicate. I hosted my DNS with www.net.cn. I hope...
The 8-Day of Nightmare Dec 22, 2005
Oh. I almost forget how to blog after 8 days - almost the longest pause in the history of three years. Let me explain what happened in the last 8 days. Ipowerweb, the hosting company First of all, I'd like...
Seems the site is partly back... Dec 22, 2005
It seems so......
Wangjianshuo's Blog is Experiencing Difficulties Dec 20, 2005
Hi all, Sorry that the blog was down for more than 7 days, since Dec 13, 2005. This is the most difficult time for this blog since it was created. I am working very hard to solve this problem and...
Sorry for Outage 8 Hours Dec 14, 2005
Saw this? Congratulations! You are a frequent visitor to this blog. Image in courtesy of ipowerweb There are about 8 hour outage of the service today. All pages under home.wangjianshuo.com are not accessible, including hosting services for my friends mvm,...
Happy Birthday to Robert Mao Dec 13, 2005
The other day, on the street of Los Gatos, I saw a plate before a garden shop (I don't know how to put it better. It is a shop selling flowers, garden tools and decorations). It says: Friends are flowers...
Weekend at San Jose Dec 12, 2005
Stayed in San Jose for the weekend. Thanks RC for taking care of me and showed me around the region and Carroll/Jim to host me for their trimming tree party at their beautiful house. I learnt a lot recently about...
Hotmail Does Not Work Dec 10, 2005
My password for my hotmail does not work now. There must be delay for replying your email. I also have some emails inviting me to dinners, sorry that I cannot make it or reply the email from hotmail due to...
SFO Pictures Dec 9, 2005
Post some pictures in SFO on US 101. Victor was with me and took the pictures. Photograph by Victor Photograph by Victor Photograph by Victor Photograph by Victor Photograph by Victor Photograph by Victor Photograph by Victor Night, had dinner...
Jet Lag Patterns Dec 8, 2005
Jet lag!I hate jet lag. The pattern for my jet lag is clear and repeartable. Let me keep a record of my experience these days to make sure the next time I travel, I understand which part of the time...
In San Jose Already Dec 6, 2005
Don't worry about me. Jia dropped us an SMS as early as 6:30 AM Shanghai time about whether we arrived safely. Thanks. I am OK. I am in San Jose already. The weather in California is great - as everytime...
Flying to SFO Dec 4, 2005
Flying to San Francisco again tomorrow. I will be back to Shanghai on Dec 15, Shanghai time. During these 10 days, I will keep blogging but keep in mind that the time of the entries will be offset by 8...
Perhaps Love Movie Dec 3, 2005
A cold Saturday. At night, since there is only one person at home, I drove (I even didn't know why I drove there) to the Super Brand Mall to see movies. There are many movies on show recently, such as...
Shanghai is Still Highly Polluted Dec 2, 2005
Today, the weather is the same (except colder) and the dark gray, almost yellow sky is still like several days ago. According to local newspaper, it had been the 8th continuous day of grade II (which means slightly polluted). Based...
World AIDS Day Dec 1, 2005
Today is world aids day. Today is the day to think, but this year, as the previous year, we don't have a site to link. I am not sure why the Linkandthink.org project was paused since 2003. I liked to...