Happy Chinese New Year! 牛年快乐！Wish all a prosperous year of the ox!

Just arrived in Guangzhou, it's 10 degrees outside!

at Tianjin now spending tonight, then leaving tomorrow for Guangzhou

visiting Tsinghua University today, Tsinghua is like the University of Waterloo of Canada

Need to finish up writing 2 papers before Chinese New Year holidays start next week, busy busy, as always but loving it!

Register for Mobile Monday Beijing for Mon. Jan. 19 @ http://ping.fm/E5b0W

Peter Kollock professor and sociologist known in the communities area just died http://ping.fm/j8auv I first heard of Peter when he gave a talk at Web-based Communities in 2006 in San Sebastian, Spain. I was impressed by his talk and his scholarly publications. He will be surely missed. Prayers and thoughts are with his family.

The PhD thesis has just been submitted to University of Toronto and I'm totally done, the PhD is done, complete, finished!

Back at work after a great weekend, reminder that Hypertext 2009 papers are due on Feb. 2, 2009!

Christmas tree has finally been taken down tonight, first Christmas in Beijing officially over!

visiting ming city walls relics park

First tech story of 2009: MacWorld

Well MacWorld is here, but Steve Jobs isn't. This doesn't mean that there aren't any new news from Apple. Quite the contrary, according to the MacWorld keynote, what was new from Apple was their 17-inch thinnest and lightest MacBook Pro which is the thinnest in the world (according to them). They also did some stuff to make the battery last longer. Another new thing that Apple announced was that iTunes is going DRM-free.

Even though if this year's MacWorld doesn't seem as glitzy and glamorous as previous years (like the iPhone and MacBook Air), this Apple gadget that didn't make it to MacWorld hopefully will make up for it.


Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Look ma, no keyboard!

Next tech story, CES in Las Vegas happening this week.

Back to the first day of work in 2009, it's Sunday, but it's mandatory day for work in China after 3 days of New Year holidays