Archive for May, 2007

Update to WordPress 2.2

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

WordPress 2.2 came into portage today, so I updated. The new widgets function tells me that my theme is not widget aware… perhaps I should find a new one.

Discovered Google Translate

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Some days ago I discovered Google Translate, Google’s automatic translation service. I’m aware that it’s not exactly new, and for example babelfish has been there for years, supplying us with extremely bad and most of the times quite amusing translation of websites - but the news is: Google Translate knows Chinese! I have been using [...]

How to apply for a driving license in Shanghai (for foreigners with a foreign driving license)

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

I went through the process today (took approximately 5-6 hours including the travelling through the city). So now I’ll write down what to do, perhaps it may be helpful for somebody.
What you need

Your passport with visa
Your residence permit (thin piece of paper, probably in the back of your passport booklet)
Your foreign driving license (international driving [...]