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                              April 23, 2004


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     XGAO recommended a very interesting tool to me, the Microsoft
     Office Home Style+. It can create cartoon pictures for you from
     any pictures. Here is my experiment. Very interesting. My
     Picture Steps Results...

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((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Experiencing Maglev Shanghai )))))))

                              April 21, 2004


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     Thanks to Spanky, who posted the following comment under my
     article: Maglev - A Failure?. I found the information very
     valuable and quoted the comment in this seperate post. Of cause
     all credit goes to Spanky. I've just returned from...

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(((((((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Maglev - A Failure? ))))))))))))

                              April 19, 2004


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     Although the Maglev connecting Pudong Airport and Long Yang
     Road Station attracted much attention, more and more factors
     show that it is a failed project. Very Little Traffic According
     to this article: Shanghai cuts maglev train ticket prices, "the
     440-seat...

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(((((((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Drive-Ins in China ))))))))))))

                              April 18, 2004


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     Paul pointed me to this interesting article: Drive-Ins the Hot,
     'New' Thing in China It is so interesting to me, as a new car
     owner. I admire that the drive-ins are already available in
     Beijing, but not in Shanghai yet....

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To Subscriber: Sorry for pausing sending out email update in the last
few weeks, since I was moving the site to a new hosting company. I just
completed the reconfiguration and can send email now.


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(((((((((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Car or Bicycle? ))))))))))))))

                              March 23, 2004


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     Blanc from France asked me a series of questions regarding
     using cars and bicycles in Shanghai. Finally, I have some
     questions about you car and your life? Do you know how often
     you will use your car, on a regular basis? For you, is it
     quicker to take your car or to take the subway, to go to work,
     for...

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(((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Sanya Travelogue - on the Beach ))))))

                              March 22, 2004


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      This is the perfect image of a beach in my mind. So it becomes
     real. I call it a vacation. I do mean vacation. It is the life
     to lie on the beach and do nothing. It is not travel. When I
     travel, I will create a very intensive schedule and put as much
     places into the schedule as...

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(((((((((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Back from Sanya ))))))))))))))

                              March 21, 2004


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     Just a quick update that I have returned from Sanya safely from
     the long (four days?) vacation. It was wonderful trip with many
     beautiful pictures. Since the flight arrives at about 11:00 PM
     at Pudong Airport, it is already midnight now. So I will put
     more information tomorrow morning... Be patient....

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((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: OOB  for Wedding Anniversary )))))))

                              March 17, 2004


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     OOB = Out of Blogging Today is the one year anniversary of my
     marriage. On March 17 last year, Wendy and I got our marriage
     certificate. As some may confuse, the date of getting the
     marriage certificate and the wedding ceremony are typically two
     events. Typically, people will get the certificate first and
     prepare for the grant wedding ceremony in...

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(((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: FIAT Siena 1.5 HL Pictures ))))))))

                              March 16, 2004


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     Yesterday, I drove my car home. I was too excited with the new
     car and didn't upload pictures. This morning, I wake up half an
     hour earlier and rushed down to take pictures of the new car.
     Here you are. © Jian Shuo Wang. Side look of the new car.
     © Jian Shuo Wang. Back of the car. © Jian...

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(((((((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: March 14 Activities ))))))))))))

                              March 14, 2004


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     I don't like to record what I did everyday so the blog entry
     will be very boring. This is an exception. Buying FIAT Siena I
     spent several hours in the car store of FIAT. I still didn't
     make up my mind. Although I heard a lot of advice to choose
     either VW, or GM, GM is just too oil consuming...

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((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Blogcn & BlogDriver Shut Down )))))))

                              March 13, 2004


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     Two more blog service provider were shut down after
     blogbus.com. Now, all of the top three blogs stoped their
     services now. This is not astonishing at all. To be safe, I
     don't want to make any comment on this. It is the hard time for
     everyone involved in the China blogging world. © Jian Shuo
     Wang. Screen shot of blogdriver.com...

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(((((((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: BlogBus.com Blocked ))))))))))))

                              March 12, 2004


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     After I wrote the title, I realized it is not blocked. It was
     ordered to be shutdown. As one of the three blog service
     providers (others are blogcn.com and blogdriver.com, blogbus
     did very well job to innovate and add more functions. However,
     it is forced to shut down due to political blogs. Image
     courtesy of blogbus.com. Translation: Due to unauthorized...

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((((((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Using Contact Lenses )))))))))))

                              March 10, 2004


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     My glasses were broken the night before the last. I put it on
     the bed (what a stupid action) and put my arm on it (this will
     happen in the future if not today). It broken from the middle.
     Now I two identical parts of the glass. One is the left lens
     with the left leg and the other is...

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((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Old Houses in Shanghai - Part III )))))

                              March 10, 2004


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     This is to follow up the hot discussion under Old Houses in
     Shanghai - Part II. In that post, I put one of the 35 private
     villas in Lane 120 of Tai An Rd. JH commented: I believe that
     all (or most) of these houses are still state owned property.
     Based on the newspaper article, each two story house has...

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(((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Just Few Steps Away from My New Car ))))

                              March 08, 2004


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     I am picking up the plan of buying a car in Shanghai again. I
     thought I have dropped the plan already when I started to seek
     for apartments in Puxi again. It is disappointing. I have to
     re-consider my plan. I visited some car stores. It seems my
     first car is only 100 meters away. I started with Buick
     Sail....

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(((((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Automatic Door in Metro ))))))))))

                              March 05, 2004


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     Did you notice the automatic door in Hengshan Road Metro
     Station? © Jian Shuo Wang. The automatic door experiment
     of Hengshan Rd. Station of Metro Line #1 It has been installed
     for almost one year I remember, but very few people noticed the
     doors. It is for experiment. According to a old news report,
     the door will be installed to...

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((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Learn Photography - Seriously )))))))

                              March 05, 2004


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     I was greatly influenced by my elder brother. He bought a
     second hand Huqiu (虎丘) camera when he was in
     university. It was back to 1989. I doubt whether this brand of
     camera still exists. It was the camera inspired my interest in
     photography. I took some pictures with this camera (including
     many sweet memories with Wendy). I selected Photography...

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((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Benz Taxi Accepts Credit Card )))))))

                              March 04, 2004


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      Benz Taxi accepts credit card and the price is the same. I
     took a picture of the Benz taxi yesterday. From the picture,
     you can see the taxi begin to accept credit card. It is not
     news in U.S., but in Shanghai, it is historical change in a
     city where even PizzaHut does not accept credit card. The
     price...

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(((((((((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Bye Bye, Pudong ))))))))))))))

                            February 29, 2004


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     There is something that I didn't disclose in this blog. At the
     end of last year, we planned seriously to move to Pudong -- the
     green land. We bought a new house with very big garden in
     Pudong and planned a car. However, in the recent weeks, I was
     convinced that Pudong is not the place for me. I decided...

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((((((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Film Mona Lisa Smile )))))))))))

                            February 26, 2004


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     Wendy and I went to the UME theater at Xintiandi. The film is
     named Mona Lisa Smile by Julia Roberts. Late Movie It was the
     latest show of the day. It started at 11:10 PM. I am lucky to
     live in a city that there is a theater serving film as late as
     11:00 PM. Of cause, we were really...

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(((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Reviewed by ChinaHerald.net ))))))))

                            February 25, 2004


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     Fons posted a review of Wangjianshuo's blog on Chinaherald.net.
     It is the first formal and long review of my site. I guess I am
     the most interested person in the world to read this article.
     It gives me some feedback of the site from another point of
     view. Feedbacks are always encouraging. I am very happy to see
     people posting...

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(((((((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Server Down and Up ))))))))))))

                            February 24, 2004


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     I hate to talk about it but I have to update about the
     technical difficulties in the last two days. The server was not
     accessible at around 0:00 AM of Feb 22. It lasted for about
     half day. Around 2:00 PM that day, the HTML page was recovered
     but the comment function stoped working. It took another day to
     fix...

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(((((((((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Foggy Shanghai ))))))))))))))

                            February 19, 2004


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     Heavy fog hit Shanghai this morning. Outside my window, it was
     all white. It is among the heaviest fog I have experienced in
     Shanghai. Visibility is less than 20 meters. According to Sina
     Shanghai Channel, elevated highway, Hong Qiao Airport, shuttle
     ships on the Huang Pu river, and express ways were closed this
     morning....

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((((((((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Receiver Pay SMS? )))))))))))))

                            February 19, 2004


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     During my recent talk with George, I was surprised (he was also
     surprised with my reaction) that most countries use the
     Receiver Pay SMS business model. China is the few countries in
     the world that charges the sender 0.1 RMB and the receivers pay
     nothing. To me, it is more reasonable for the sender to pay the
     fee so I...

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(((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Wifi Hotspot Competion Becomes Hot ))))

                            February 17, 2004


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     I was tired tonight, so I leave the office - air in office
     building should be rated as the worst in a city. :-( Xujiahui
     is a good place with so many good places. I wanted to go to
     Starbucks Metro Tower Store to have a cup of coffee and read
     some materials I just printed out. Starbucks becomes more...

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((((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Always-Red Traffic Signs )))))))))

                            February 17, 2004


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     Hey. The traffic signs are still not working! I talked about
     pedestrian signs at Cao Xi Rd. North
     漕溪北路 and Nan Dan Rd.
     南丹路 were already read in four directions
     in this article: Traffic Rule in Shanghai. Tonight, when I
     passed by the cross road, I found the signs are all red again
     during the ten minutes I was there....

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(((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: China Internet Market Analysis ))))))

                            February 17, 2004


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     Vicent from New Yorked sent me a set of questionair about
     Internet in China. I have answered the questions. I am sharing
     the questions and answers to help you get some idea of the
     current status of the market in China. Questions published
     under Vicent's permission. 1) Of all of the Chinese Internet
     portals (Sina, Netease, Sohu) which is the...

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(((((((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Beijing Impression ))))))))))))

                            February 16, 2004


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     Beijing impresses me so much every time I visit. This visit was
     a business trip. The only time I got was to take Metro back to
     where I stayed after a business meeting. I decided to take
     metro to experience the city and save some taxi fee for the
     company. Here are the new findings from this adventure. More
     Signes...

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((((((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Transit of Beijing Metro )))))))))

                            February 16, 2004


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     I will never complain the transit station of Metro #1 and #2 -
     People's Square Station, in Shanghai after I see the transit
     station of the Dong Zhi Men Station, where people transit to
     Metro line #13 from #2. The route is three times longer than in
     Shanghai. © Jian Shuo Wang As you can see from the map,
     people...

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(((((( Wangjianshuo's blog Update: Voted as Top 10 Blogs in China ))))))

                            February 13, 2004


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     I am honored to be voted as Top 10 Blogs in China 2003 (Chinese
     site) in the English blog category. Logo in courtesy of
     wesnapcity.com I'd like to congratulate those ten blogs in
     Chinese blog category, since the competition is much hotter
     there. 2003 is the year blogs got popular and attracted much
     attention. They did wonderful job. Here is...

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Welcome for the first batch of new subscriber to my list after it is
moved to Yahoo! Groups. This should be the second update sent to the
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