Allegra Vita

@wei2 busy and happy, thanks Wei! We're working hard on establishing Illuminant in NYC. Will have news to report shortly. in reply to wei2 #
I broke my iPhone's LCD in China on Nov 10th. Just got it back (in the USA) from @rapidrepair: they've done a good job. #
I joined Gowalla: simoncousins #
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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 [...]

My Verizon FiOS was delivered with a surprisingly fully-featured wireless router: a OEM branded Westell UltraLine Series3 http://ow.ly/QxH2 #
@lhiver Florida's a little chilly, but with a wide blue sky, clean air, clean water, nice ppl and my family, its really pretty nice. in reply to lhiver #
@Verizon Joe the FiOS installer arrived right on time, [...]

Doing something I never did before: upgrading our car's software via a USB memory drive. We're going from 3.01 to 3.1 #ford #sync #
Hmm. I need tech support for the car. The Ford Sync system is not initiating the 3.1 software upgrade. #
@marcelekkel heh, it does! its based on WinCE. I just upgraded to the [...]

Just ordered 15Mbit Verizon FiOS internet for our place in the US. #
@sagebrennan Its gonna be fiber direct into the house, so we'll see…! @imagethief in reply to sagebrennan #
3pm. Late enough for a glass of red at this time of year I think. #
@AlohaZen @marcelekkel It was a lovely Argentinian malbec. So lovely, I'm [...]

Chrome for Mac has been released. TechCrunch: http://ow.ly/K1Wz #
Chrome for Mac announcement on Official Google Blog [blocked in China] http://ow.ly/K1Yb #
Chrome update server must be getting slammed. My Mac Chromes are complaining of "not available" errors. #
@houenrong yeah, i see. my dev chrome updated from server & asked for reboot but relaunches with same [...]

Today is office moving day for us. We've got a great new space in the IBM Tower in Sanlitun, Beijing. #
@submono @dda thanks guys in reply to submono #
Crunchpad is dead. I admire @arrington for quickly airing his dodgy partner: wish I was as brave with deadbeat clients. http://ow.ly/HmGi #
We ate our [...]

RT @CERN: CERN's press release has pictures of some of the first collisions http://bit.ly/8U6DVX. #CERN #LHC #
Another very, very bad Beijing air day. The atmosphere is full of suspended coal soot. #
RT @Chassit: Beijing taxis will charge 1 extra kuai each km above 3km from tomorrow?? #
Ahh. RT @kaiserkuo: @submono Thanks. Yeah, not so bad [...]

For those following the Murdoch/NYT-Google imbroglio, @jeffjarvis has collected his thoughts and blogged well http://ow.ly/CUtU #
Chinese netizen's latest meme: "Are you a member of the Communist Party?" [chinaSMACK] http://ow.ly/CUuG #
Chromium for Mac just got bookmark sync @ChangshaNotes in reply to ChangshaNotes #
The Vatican knows something we don't: "Aliens may exist and may be free from [...]

Its snowing in Beijing. We've had 2-3 cm in the last 2 hours. Looking like it will snow all night. #
@dda I do! Last week, in Hong Kong winter, was perfect. in reply to dda #
@dda While it is lovely looking out the window at white snow, I know that by 7am it will be [...]