http://blog.chinaorbit.com Blog about our experience as expats living and working in Beijing. Sat, 30 May 2009 11:06:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Microsoft is about to launch its search engine bing soon: http://www.bing.com/ComingSoon I wonder why the first word which comes into my mind is "disease". Probably it has something to do with the Chinese character for disease, "病" which is pronounced "bing". Of course there are more than one characters with the pronunciation ... http://blog.chinaorbit.com/2009/05/30/bing-or-%e7%97%85-the-new-search-engine-by-microsoft.html I just checked a few blogs of people I met in Beijing when I did business there and found a few nice posts: Save your time: http://paztal.com/?p=211 More important from the same author Thai noodle soup in 5 minutes: http://paztal.com/?p=224 http://blog.chinaorbit.com/2009/05/27/just-checking.html At the moment I am enjoying my stay at Incheon International Airport in Seoul (as far as you can enjoy waiting at an airport for your departure). I checked in in Seoul at the City Air Terminal, got rid of my luggage, received my departure stamp at the immigration center there ... http://blog.chinaorbit.com/2009/05/11/incheon-airport-the-best-in-the-world.html Yesterday, the movie about John Rabe started in China. Apparently you can already get illegal copies on the streets. I did not watch the movie yet but chatted about it with a Chinese friend who watched the movie already. He really wondered why John Rabe was not shown as hero, ... http://blog.chinaorbit.com/2009/04/30/john-rabe-in-china-and-the-reaction-in-japan.html Well, some people just can not listen. A  friend of mine (who does not care if I make some fun of him in my blog) had a good business idea, he did not want to tell me about at first. Still easy to guess: the idea was basically to import ... http://blog.chinaorbit.com/2009/04/29/china-not-that-easy.html This happened to a friend in Korea (Seoul). The cleaning lady already expressed her hapiness because he kept his room clean and she had nearly no work ("You are a good boy" - he is over 30 years old). [caption id="" align="alignright" width="181" caption="Cleaning Lady in Korea"][/caption] http://blog.chinaorbit.com/2009/04/23/room-service-was-here.html Validating RSS-feeds can be quite difficult, espacially if you have a website with user generated content and people use some strange characters in their own language, for example "ä" (ä) . If this HTML-entity is saved like this : "ä" in your database you have  a problem because  XML only ... http://blog.chinaorbit.com/2009/04/11/how-to-validate-rss-feeds.html We've upgrade wordpress to latest version. Please leave a comment if you find anything unusual. It has a new interface for admin panel and I think it'll take sometime before I get used to it. The upgrate-function of wordpress is great, one click and its done if you dont make any ... http://blog.chinaorbit.com/2008/12/16/wordpress-upgraded.html Recently there were some updates on the agenda: typo3 has a new version with a lot of improved features, phpBB3 had to be updated, dolphin and of course wordpress. The wordpress update is finished now and I have to admit that it will take some time to get used to ... http://blog.chinaorbit.com/2008/05/08/update-of-wordpress.html In Beijing you can find countdowns for the start of the Olympics 2008 everywhere. Some of them only display the days, most of them are accurate to the second. The unit I am living in also has a countdown but they update i every day manually. Every morning they ... http://blog.chinaorbit.com/2008/02/22/olympic-countdowns-in-beijing.html