Shanghai is going through a bit of a tiger at the moment. Everyday is hot, sunny and 27 Celsius.
Yesterday, we went to the Shanghai Sculpture Space on 50 Huai Hai Xi Lu near Hongqiao as part of the Biennale and most of it was much better than the art on display by the proper artists at Shanghai Art Museum.
Meanwhile, I am gathering articles about information overload to explore how technology can degrade the quality of work by making it difficult for us to concentrate given that we are bombarded with E-mail, IM chats, SMS, phonecalls and the temptation to go off on endless time wasting tangents.
I have also been having fun with one of these tangents called mojopac (www.mojopac.com), which allows you to make your own portable virtual xp desktop that you can carry around on your portable drives. It is basically like portable apps, but with more choice. I am going to try it on a few different workstations and see if it is good enough to buy.
I have also been thinking about ways of improving the sound for my podcast. Last week I solved the hosting problem by going with libsyn and found the beta version of blogger really improves the layout. I might go to Metro City in Xuijiahui to buy a decent mic, such as a Seinheisser or Shure SM 58. I don't want to spend more than 600 RMB. I am currently using the TuneTalk stero mic, which I reviewed on Netcast 1. It's OK, but I;ve got the bug to make the sound almost professional. In future months, I want to upgrade by adding a mixer to record interviews and maybe even some decent noise cancelling headphones.
The other challenge is to use liquid layers in CSS to improve Jenny's webpage by making it dynamically upscale with different resolution monitors. I confess to still using table base design and I plan to fix that as soon as possible. One day, I'll get time to read non geeky books again.
