Author: stlplace

Reading Time: < 1 minute I posted some pictures (I took at Shanghai during the past week) at flickr, you can get it from the right side bar (my flickr) or the link here.  

stlplace
September 10, 2006

Reading Time: < 1 minute I have stayed in the Home Inn (Rujia) for a while. My hometown friend, who is a small business owner, recommended it to me in 2004. Since then I would stay at this motel for my China trip, because it’s clean and fit my budget. Not supersingly, Wang Jianshuo also recommended it in his blog. I stayed

stlplace
September 6, 2006

Reading Time: < 1 minute I came back to Shanghai last Saturday. To be honest, after stayed in Midwest US for long time, I felt not very comfortable at Shanghai. The most obvious thing is the physical distance between people is much closer. The traffic and the (need to) walk instead of driving. I am not complaining here. I think similar thing will

stlplace
September 4, 2006

Reading Time: 2 minutes From time to time I had the oppertunity to work with gurus, I mean, the expert, or the genius in the field. I think I enjoyed my time spent with them from time to time. Although I had to admit those days were not easy 🙁 In the second year of my graduate school, I took a

stlplace
August 30, 2006

Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently a few friends completed graduate study, and got full time positions. They asked me the question: how to start in the new company? Or put in another way, how to win the trust from the boss/coworkers, and do well in the new company? While I don’t think I am expert on all these, I do believe I have learned

stlplace
August 27, 2006

Reading Time: < 1 minute I did not realized my cell phone did not ring until yesterday. I was suspicious of my missing calls in past a few days. But as I normally set it to “vibrate” mode and it did vibrate when I wear it, it disguised the real problem. Basically my Motorola V600 did not ring and the speaker phone is

stlplace
August 20, 2006

Reading Time: < 1 minute Li Jia Jun, the legend Chinese short track speed skater, announced his retirement today. Here is the news (in Chinese). And here is his picture. The thing I like him is he never quits. Let’s wish him well upon retirement.  

stlplace
August 17, 2006

Reading Time: 2 minutes Buying a house is probablly the biggest investment most people make during their life time. In past few years, as I was looking for my first house, and accompanying my friends for their house hunting, I have seen lots of houses in St. Louis area. The price ranged from 100 K to 800 K; the

stlplace
August 8, 2006

Reading Time: < 1 minute This is going to be huge, if proved to be true. Here is a link about the sponsorship news. A few months ago I saw an article on WSJ talking about LiNing signed up Damon Jones of Cleveland Cavaliers. I don’t have the link of original WSJ article but here is a press release from

stlplace
August 4, 2006

Reading Time: < 1 minute Saw this word from a Chinese blog, and I liked it. Recently I started to work on a web project I thought about for a long time but did not do too much about it. This past weekend I started working on it again, and I did learn something. Now I know why I need Ajax (why HTML

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August 2, 2006
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