Shang Ning’s Blog

Archive for May, 2008

More than 30 days from London to Beijing

I paid to upgrade my flickr to Pro Account last month, and Flickr gave me a gift, 10 Moo mini cards and free shipping for me. I have got the gift, it is very lovely and beautiful, I like it very much.

The mini cards are small, it is great diaphanous. I selected 10 best photos […]

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Two useful classifieds information websites: Ganji and Kijiji

I am exciting to exchange links with ganji website, it is a useful website likes Kijiji, they are all Classified Information Websites. If you are LaoWai and lives in China, these sites will help you a lot.

1. Ganji Website:
The Engish version of ganji serves as a information provider for the foreigners who are living in […]

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

How to Take Great Baby Photos for Cute Kid Contest

The Cute Kid started a photo contest, their 2008 Cute Kid Contest offers monthly winners cash and great prizes, and automatic entry into the “2008 CuteKid of the Year” Contest.

1. How to join the contest?
Three simple steps to join the contest quickly. Join the CuteKid first; upload photos with a step-by-step wizard; then you will […]

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Why Chinese websites turned into Gray Themes recently

As China started its national mourning for three days, most websites and major portals have been presented as grey out mode.
We Chinese expressing our moods in colors, for example, to express sorrow in Black and White; to express fortunate and happy in Red. So, my blog’s major color is red, it’s a blessing color.
Some days […]

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

China earthquake on 12th May

At 2.28 PM on May 12 A 7.8 Richter Scale earthquake pounded Wenchuan County in southwest China’s Sichuan Province.

May 12 The strong earthquake in southwest China has damaged power supplies to local telecommunications facilities, which affected cell phone services.
May 12 Rain linger over much of quake-stricken southwestern Sichuan Province over three days
May 13 near 20,000 […]

Monday, May 19th, 2008

How to boot up Mac OS X in console mode

I have a Mac Mini conputer and it is too slow to do anything, because there is only 256MB memories and the free memories is few when the Aqua running.

So, I think I can DIY it into a server, just booting up in console mode, and running the Apache, Mysql, PHP and Perl on it.
There […]

Sunday, May 18th, 2008