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The Kitchen
SmartShanghai.com | The Kitchen Salvatore Cuomo – reviews, pictures, map – 2967 Bin Jiang Da Dao, Shanghai The Kitchen Salvatore Cuomo is a little hard to find since it doesn’t have a Chinese name and no one around there seems to know where it is. If you ask for ?? (chu fan) in Chinese, then…
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Skype and China
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Pairing JX-10
Jabra JX10 Bluetooth Headset Review | Everything Treo o get the Jabra JX10 into pairing mode, there is a tiny button on the back of the headset. Initiating pairing mode on the Jabra JX10 was easy enough. This thing doesn’t work like any other bluetooth headset I’ve had. Normally you hold the ON button to…
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Kensington 120 Watt AC/DC Power Adapter
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Shanghai Sailing and Racing
!>http://www.shanghaibyc.org/images/inline_fleet_wanderer.jpg!: http://shanghaibyc.org “Shanghai Boat and Yacht Club”:http://www.shanghaibyc.org/ had to happen. Some fun things going on and there if finally a sailing club here. It is at Dian Shan Lake and for instance this “Sunday”:http://www.shanghaibyc.org/calendar.php they have a Round the Lake Pursuit They are based at the “Shanghai Water Sports Center”:http://www.shanghaibyc.org/locations.php#swsc. Form March to November the…
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Shanghai Biking
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Beijing Airport Air China Club has Wifi
It’s never clear in China where you’ll get Wifi access, but the Air China Club in the domestic terminal has free Wifi access. They also have about a dozen network taps but about half seem to be broken all the time. Also the “airport”:http://www.bcia.com.cn/en/index.jsp has real time arrival information which is pretty valuable if you…
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Identity Theft
Read a good piece about identity theft. One thing they mention is pulling your credit reports every year which is a pain. “Annualcreditreport.com”:http://annualcredireport.com seems to do this and makes it easy.
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Mobile Blackberry site
!>http://mobile.blackberry.com/mss/content/home/images/screen_home.jpg!:http://mobile.blackberry.com Well, it is almost impossible to discover, but Blackberry has for its latest models running Blackberry OS 4.1 a very cool site that free games, ringtones and other such stuff. It called “mobile.blackberry.com”:http://mobile.blackberry.com and for some reason is buried in the help menu. The best way is to type it into your blackberry browser…
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Smelly Plane
When you fly enough, you’ll see everything, in my case, this was some strange odor on a flight yesterday that caused the plane to return. All the smoke detectors went off over the Olympic Peninsula, so it wasn’t super fun to have to divert. The flight left this morning, so hopefully it will be trouble…