- We enrolled our daughter into elementary school and bought all her school supplies. #
- @lhiver heheh yeah, you have a point Joel! in reply to lhiver #
- @amymengcn Happy new year to you too, Amy. Made it to the States yet? in reply to amymengcn #
- Good to see the @Imagethief back on the blog http://ow.ly/SSz8 #
- Our 9yo daughter was born in Europe and has grown up in China. Today she enters the US educational system for her 1st day. Good luck Daph! #
- Many thanks @dda @stinson @mtwirth for your best wishes. #
- @HeyTreeeee We're in Tampa FL for a while for some family stuff. I'm opening a NYC office for our agency over the upcoming months. in reply to HeyTreeeee #
- @hkFashionGeek @HeyTreeeee Many thanks for your best wishes! Daphne's 4th grade teacher is the school's teacher-of-the-year. We're lucky. in reply to HeyTreeeee #
- @lhiver You mean the architectural details, or facade, is not so impressive? Or the height? Or another factor? #burj #khalifa #dubai in reply to lhiver #
- I'm sitting in front of a laptop recently brought to the US from China. It is behaving like it is behind GFW. I believe I'm seeing spyware. #
- @GE_Anderson Did that. Same behaviour. Time to schedule a rebuild from bare metal on this machine I think. in reply to GE_Anderson #
- @GE_Anderson US State Dept recommends all execs reformat their laptop hard disks and trash their cellphones after returning from China in reply to GE_Anderson #
- @KaiserKuo Dunno Kaiser. Flushed DNS on @GE_Anderson's recc; and I've double checked all TCP/IP settings. But u know me… paranoid! in reply to KaiserKuo #
- @betsydrager reformatting! in reply to betsydrager #
- Lunch: sourdough muffins with a fried organic egg, tomatoes, jalapeno harvati cheese and stoneground mustard. #
- @peterschloss hehe, I must admit its very nice to be shopping in North American grocery stores, as opposed to Jenny Lou. in reply to peterschloss #
- Looks like @mailchimp upgraded their text editing engine: Chinese text formatting is much smoother today than ever before #
- Thanks a mill, Robert RT @Scobleizer: 7,500 watching live now at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/google-android-press-gathering #
- I love the specs in the Nexus One. I'm gonna skip it, though, and look out for the Nexus Two. I won't be sad to leave iPhone for Android. #
- @HeyTreeeee
in reply to HeyTreeeee # - I love having dedicated Skype machines at our offices so I can stay video linked in permanently. Distance is 90% irrelevant. #
- @Steveology It was no Stevenote, thats for sure. Google are engineers, not marketers, seems to me. Lots of steak, not much sizzle (sadly). in reply to Steveology #
- @BetterWings Just dedicated Macs. Very nice to have remote offices videoed into whereever I'm working. in reply to BetterWings #
- CNN piece on beautifulpeople.com kicking "fatty" 5K users off site was newsy, but can imagine producer's glee at airing all that eye-candy. #
- @Steveology yeah, curious, from a marcomms perspective. why would you launch the upending of the US cellular business in a bunker? in reply to Steveology #
- @rkoffler Just Macs positioned at a wideview loc. Nothing special. Logmein.com all 'round to enable me to "answer the call" I'm placing. in reply to rkoffler #
- @rkoffler its midnight in Beijing but I can hear the construction noise in the office upstairs from our Beijing office is ongoing in reply to rkoffler #
- Mmm. Corn Flakes. They never get old. #
- You probably won't be disappointed in Google Chrome. Its a cool drink of water. RT @HeyTreeeee: JESUS CHRIST FIREFOX ANOTHER UPDATE? #
- @randomwire Agree. Chrome rocks. Don't miss any former browser in the slightest. in reply to randomwire #
- RT @Jason: Free Unlocked Nexus One Phone #freenexusone http://wp.me/pk3g7-1jE #
- Still snowing in Beijing? #
- @blcsfo The snow and cold is really disruptive, my Beijing team tells me. Stay warm and dry if you can! in reply to blcsfo #
- ooohhh… RT @BetterWings: @illuminantceo Simon, you might be interested in this: LG reveals Skype-enabled HDTVs http://bit.ly/61ubSv #
- Hootsuite upgraded: posts to Wordpress, has extensions. Yeah! #
- WinMo is dead, dead, dead and has been for years RT @ChinaBizWatch: Get ready for Xbox games on Windows Mobile http://bit.ly/6XJBZh #
- The last thin sliver of WinMo marketshare is IT Dept-mandated enterprise users… and Microsoft is putting Xbox games on the platform? WTF? #
- Cooking tonight's family dinner: crispy curry roast potatoes, red coconut curry chicken strips, sugarsnaps and baby carrots with sesame #
- Hey @GoogleContacts, how about a custom favicon, like Sites, Gmail, Cal, Docs, and Reader? Makes tab navigation a bunch easier. #
- Heavy frost overnight in Tampa, FL #
- Having a lot of trouble finding pricing for Wordpress Premium hosting on their site. Hate when sites make pricing opaque. #
- OK @wordpress, I'm stumped. How much for your Premium accounts? Have a client with money to spend, but no idea what to charge them. #
- Wordpress Premium pricing seems only available once one has created and logged into a free account. Those guys must be smarter than me. #
- Wordpress Premium upgrades from Free: custom domain mapping: $9.97; VideoPress $59.97/yr; custom CSS $14.97/yr; +5Gb $19.97; +15Gb $49.97; #
- Wordpress Premium upgrades from Free: +25Gb $89.97; No-Ads $29.97/yr; Unlimited Private Users $29.97/yr. ends. #
- Bcuz an IMDB search for "Tiananmen Square massacre" returns 4 hits. RT @Chassit: What the f*ck do they block #IMDB for??? #GFW #
- @dirtstar far out. thanks. its a curious policy to hide pricing inside a free account's CMS interface. not an oversight. #wordpress #premium in reply to dirtstar #
- Global Times reports on rotten practice of ubiquitous bribery-for-stories in Chinese media http://ow.ly/TGfA Happy 2C this kimono opened. #
- @cdrum Google Apps Premier competes wtih @Wordpress Premium for a simple fifty bucks a year. Love the pricing model. @googleapps in reply to cdrum #
- Like a chicken? Don't be a turkey. RT @HeyTreeeee: Wow. What an absolutely fowl mood I'm in. #
- Why is @twit broadcasting pre-recorded content from CES today? #
- I wonder who was the first person to anthropomorphise the internet as a cloud. Joy? McNealy? Cerf? #
- CrunchGear Live is broadcasting pre-recorded content from CES, as is @twit. Any tips on a real live CES stream? #
- Klipsch are showing a wireless audio speaker system that is a module that screws into a standard lamp socket. Includes LED lamp. #CES #
- Is JooJoo at CES? #
- Lady Gaga now streaming live from CES on http://www.crunchgear.com/ #
- Facebook Just Got Its Own VitaminWater Flavor: “Connect”. Seriously. [TechCrunch] http://ow.ly/Ubtl #
- I'd love for Google to acquire an online diagramming company like Creately or Cacoo and roll it into Docs. #
- I deleted all my legacy plugins from Firefox while I still need to keep it installed to do the odd thing that Chrome won't (e.g. Snagit) #
- @NiuB Happy birthday William! in reply to NiuB #
- @lhiver Chrome Mac updated yesterday. You should have been auto updated by now. Reboot Chrome. in reply to lhiver #
- Lasagnazilla is in the oven. It is now safe to enter the kitchen. #
- Lasagnazilla was a hit with the girls. Now have them making icecream cupcakes. Awesome 9 year-old fun. #
- many thanks for your #ff recommendation @betsydrager! in reply to betsydrager #
- Watching @leolaporte live from CES via Bitgravity http://live.twit.tv while uploading GBs of photos to Flickr #
- Making turkey chili for family dinner tonight. I like getting the evening cooking done by early afternoon, on the weekends. #
- Testing a Nokia Boklet 3G on AT&T. Handsome industrial design with McBookish kbd. Keystrokes are odly laggy in Hootsuite… #
- Turkey chili w white tortilla chips was a hit, but 9yo daughter cried at the table when she thought she wasn't getting dessert. Silly girl. #
- @blcsfo Strawberry yoghurt sundae with fresh banana and blueberries Chick's addicted to my desserts. in reply to blcsfo #
- Whoops. I put a 2Gb USB drive through the wash. And a SD card reader. #
- @KelliSuperVamp snowed overnight? #
- LOST: The Beginning of the End is on ABC today #
- Well that LOST thing on ABC ("Beginning of the End") was a piece of crap. 30 mins of mainstream fluff. Humbug. #
- I just got "Expert" status at Wakoopa http://wakoopa.com/simoncousins #
- Doing a ton of post production and uploading to Flickr. Our new 20Mbit FiOS connection is so fast, its a pleasure. #
- Having a nice Camus XO and soda. Sunday afternoon. Daph and grandma are going to the movies soon. #
- @sinotechian Yeah, we've been meaning to. IMAX edition is really, really popular in the US still. We need to book tix. in reply to sinotechian #
- Making family dinner: chicken cheeseburger sliders; fresh corn and zucchini in the pan; lots of different picked items on the side #
- @marcelekkel mmm. any fruit? in reply to marcelekkel #
- My fresh smashed guacamole and the pan-browned fresh pineapple rings were a hit with the chicken sliders. Will cook 'em again. #
- Listening to NPR's On The Media (Jan
on the subject of China's Great Firewall (archived MP3 http://ow.ly/V4lM ) # - @logmein doesn't work so reliably in Chrome (Win or Mac). Runs well in Firefox. Hope they update their plugin for Chrome soon. #
- RT @AlexBowman: HP black ink costs more than human blood (via @1rick) http://ow.ly/V4WT #
- No face unless you're in a big black imported motorcar RT @pdenlinger: Why didn't the Segway ever get shanzhaied? #
- Beware of rules, Wei! They're made to be evolved, esp in comms RT @wei2: Reading "Rules for Writing Components of a Public Relations Plan." #
- Heh. Cheaper than blood. RT @leonacraig: @illuminantceo the fake HP black ink is much cheaper. #
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