shanghai

While in Shanghai last we took a trip down to Hangzhou leaving from Shanghai South train station. The station reminds me of an alien spaceship, not that I've been on one or have anything to compare it to but still.. really its like an alien spaceship.

While in Shanghai China recognized the victims of the Sichuan earthquake with a nationwide 3 minutes of silence. At the time I was on a subway, everyone on the subway stopped, stood silently and waited until the 3 minutes passed.

This past weekend was Barcamp Shanghai. Not great the same as the US camps but great nonetheless. I had a good time and I can't wait for the next one.

Can you tell that I'm not much of a blogger? no... time..

Its Shanghai!

A few weeks ago Diana and I headed down to Shanghai. We flew down instead of taking the train and we took the "back way" to the Beijing airport. Normal Taxi fare to the airport from city center is around 75RMB, an express bus from Dongzimen is around 30RMB but if you take the public bus it is 4 mao or 4/10 of a RMB (currently the equivalent of 5 US cents). The cheapest route to the airport!

I was fortunate enough to be in Shanghai for their Drupal user meetup. It was great to meet all of them and see the projects that they are working on. Shanghai has a good number of Drupal developers and some of them have worked on some really cool projects. For me the highlight of the entire meetup was when one of the guys introduced himself as "ian" and just in case you didn't know how to pronounce it, it is "Ian" of Deb-ian.

Yes! There are super Chinese geeks! I love this place!