http://ryanerwin.com thoroughly chinafied american business geek in shanghai (now with japanese characteristics...) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:43:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Why do I have Mail.app (Email), Skype, Adium (MSN + iChat) and Twitterrific all running at the same time? Why does my iPhone have one icon for SMS's and one for Email? There are some interesting Wikipedia pages about Unified Messaging and Unified Communications, including: Unified communications (UC) is "an industry ... http://ryanerwin.com/2008/07/02/why-so-many-programs/ On top of the actual paper copy of "Founders at Work" that I'm reading for some reason, I've put together the list of audible books I'll be going through next... Does America Need a Foreign Policy? By: Henry Kissinger Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling By: Ross King The Enlightened Despots (Unabridged) By: Geoffrey Bruun China Road: A ... http://ryanerwin.com/2008/06/25/upcoming-reading-list/ Got all geeked out about two things today... One was a really strange bug on my Mac's version of Rails... Had to patch the rails time.rb and conversions.rb to get it all worked out. If get an error that looks something like: NoMethodError: private method `to_date' called for Sun ... http://ryanerwin.com/2008/06/22/geeking-out-again/ Under the market economy you are rewarded to moving resources from where they are undervalued to where they are valued more -- and punished severely for misallocating resources. There's a great old book by george soros, alchemy of finance, that you should read to better understand the market. If the year was ... http://ryanerwin.com/2008/06/13/thoughts-on-your-place-in-the-world/ 今天，美国的确还是世界上最强大的国家。没有其国家或联合能“单方面”（unilaterally）宣战，等等。可惜真的少数美国公民花什么时间在了解美国以外的事。。。这个问题不是新的，也不单是美国的问题，就是美国权利那么大，所以责任也更大。如果美国要继续保持超级大国身份，必须让人民更国际化。 有一些地图嘲笑普遍美国人民的地理概念。同时，这群体的税费睡支持情报局和军部干扰射界各地。 http://ryanerwin.com/2008/05/26/%e5%98%b2%e7%ac%91%e5%b0%84%e7%95%8c%e6%9c%80%e5%bc%ba%e5%a4%a7%e5%9b%bd%e5%ae%b6%e7%9a%84%e8%bf%91%e8%a7%86%e5%a4%96%e4%ba%a4%e3%80%82%e3%80%82%e3%80%82/ There's a great Photoshop book called "The Photoshop Anthology". I picked it up at Amazon a while back for $26 USD. The publisher sent me an email a few days ago announcing that the book is available for free download for the month of May! If you're been meaning to learn ... http://ryanerwin.com/2008/05/16/photoshop-tutorial-book/ 1) 原始社会 2) 封建社会 3) 资本主义社会 4) 社会主义社会 5) 共产主义社会 在中国,"社会主义社会"前加了一个定语"有中国特色"。事实，可能倒退到"资本主义社会"以市场经济为主导。 http://ryanerwin.com/2008/05/15/%e9%a9%ac%e5%85%8b%e6%80%9d%e7%90%86%e8%ae%ba%e7%9a%84%e7%a4%be%e4%bc%9a%e5%8f%91%e5%b1%95%e8%bf%87%e7%a8%8b/ Due to the upcoming Beijing Olympics, the 外交部 (Foreign Affairs Office) is clamping down on Visas. Sometime in lat April/early May, the 外交部 stopped issuing 多次 (Multiple Entry) visas under any circumstances. See CNR.cn 对符合条件的申请者，中方未停止签发多次入出境签证。 However... 正常来华将不会受到影响。 Additionally, in retaliation for the fingerprinting of foreigners entering the United States, China ... http://ryanerwin.com/2008/05/15/china-mainland-visa-upon-arrival-visa-on-arrival-olympics-etc/ iPhone iPod Sleep Timer Found by tino, Monday July 02nd 2007, 20:40 Filed under: Review, Technology The iPod app in the iPhone does have a sleep timer, it turns out. It’s just that it’s so well hidden that I’d never have found it without clues from elsewhere. ... http://ryanerwin.com/2008/05/14/iphone-ipod-sleep-timer/ Interesting piece in the Economist: American housing - Map of misery. Can't say I care too much, but it does define the relationships between rents and mortgages in more eloquent economic terms that I have ;-) A better measure of housing fundamentals is the relationship between house prices and ... http://ryanerwin.com/2008/05/08/americans-and-their-real-estate-market/ FYI, the Enterprise 2.0 conference is coming up. If you've abandoned Basecamp in favor of Email enabled Wrike for online project management, or any of the other Enterprise 2.0 tools, you should go vote for them! http://ryanerwin.com/2008/05/07/enterprise-20-conference/ 第一次我看过这个“twitter”的网站认为是很土，但是越看越喜欢。twitter 说他的用处是回答常问的问题：“你在干什么？”。对我来说，twitter 最大的有点是发布消息很灵活。自己已经用几个办法发布留言： Twitteriffic："super lightweight" Mac OS X desktop Twitter Client SMS/Text Message: just text in any language to: +44 7624 801423 Twinkle: iPhone geo-localized twitter client - who's twittering near you. Web (Twitter.com): Of course, you can post directly via the website 也能通过IM留言，但是没有支持QQ或MSN。现在只有：GTalk，LiveJournal，和 Jabber 试试看！ http://ryanerwin.com/2008/05/04/twitter%ef%bd%9e%e4%bd%a0%e6%9c%89%e6%b2%a1%e6%9c%89%e8%af%95%e8%bf%87%ef%bc%9f/ 八国联军是指1900年（庚子年）以军事行动侵入中国的英、法、德、俄、美、日、意、奥的八国联合军队。前期由英国海军将领西摩尔率领,开始时总人数约3万人，后来有所增加。此事件最后以中国战败，联军占领首都北京、清廷政府逃往陕西西安，谈和后中国付出庞大赔款为终。 More information at Baidu. http://ryanerwin.com/2008/04/30/%e5%85%ab%e5%9b%bd%e8%81%94%e5%86%9b%ef%bc%9aeight-power-allied-forces/ http://ryanerwin.com/2008/04/29/shanghai-subway-map-%e4%b8%8a%e6%b5%b7%e8%bd%a8%e9%81%93%e4%ba%a4%e9%80%9a%e7%a4%ba%e6%84%8f%e5%9b%be/ "FULIGANA" is the notation on japanese characters that includes the Hiragana script next to the chinese character so the reader will be aware of the reading method. For example: かん じ 漢 字 If you want to write FULIGANA on Mac OS X, the fastest route is to download NeoOffice for Mac OS X, ... http://ryanerwin.com/2008/04/28/rubyphonetic-guidesfurigana%e6%8c%af%e3%82%8a%e4%bb%ae%e5%90%8d-%e3%81%b5%e3%82%8a%e3%81%8c%e3%81%aa/