Jon Li & Tekhnologia

May 23

Sailing the high seas with Captain Elsbeth.

Sailing the high seas with Captain Elsbeth.

May 22

Dear iPad

Wish you had a solar panel charger built into the screen because otherwise you are useless in the sun…I can’t read a thing.

May 21

One of my favorite “cheap thrills.”

An inside joke up the wazoooo

One of my favorite “cheap thrills.”

An inside joke up the wazoooo

May 14

Marco.org: Feature removal -

TJ’s excellent interpretation of my release notes:

Exactly. What Instapaper does, in both the website and the iPhone app, is a small, solid foundation under a massive collection of hacks and just-barely-working features to do things that you’re not supposed to be able to do. That’s why…

sunny days: A subway adventure - When I studies in shanghai in 2904, Therre were 3 subways and I hated them so much because you had to walk 20+ minutes to transfer. It’s better to take those 5yuan motorcylce “taxis.”

When I studied abroad in Shanghai in the Fall of 2007, there were 4 subway lines. Now, there are 12. That’s really impressive when you compare it to the construction of the 2nd Ave subway in New York.

(Courtesy of www.exploreshanghai.com, which has possibly the best Shanghai metro map,…

Love this adobe ad. But I’m posting from my new Apple toy.

Love this adobe ad. But I’m posting from my new Apple toy.

May 05

“Realize that a startup puts you on an emotional rollercoaster unlike anything you have ever experienced. You will flip rapidly from a day in which you are euphorically convinced you are going to own the world, to a day in which doom seems only weeks away and you feel completely ruined, and back again. Over and over and over.” —

Marc Andreessen (via saadiq)

Ask my how I feel tomorrow…

May 01

Sunny Days: Marriage market, Dancing in the park -

Someone once told me that in Shanghai, it rains half the year. I believe it. Yesterday was running on the 4th day in a row where I could see the true color of the sky. But when I woke up today, I thought it was still nighttime. It is one of those days where I switch the TV to the golf channel just…