Month of April, 2008

Badaling Great Wall

Posted April 24th, 2008 by mattm

This Sunday I visited the Great Wall of China at Badaling. It was raining very hard, making the path slippery and full of people with umbrellas that always seemed to nail me in the neck but when you are in China, the Wall is kinda a must. I got this picture with my little Canon G9 and I think its a gem.

Does facebook really need free localization

Posted April 24th, 2008 by mattm

I have been in China on business, and since my company's Beijing site get's its corporate network connection via Japan, many websites think I am coming from Japan. This morning when I checked in on Facebook I was prompted with the message below from facebook asking if I wanted to help translate facebook! Facebook makes _a lot_ of money. Couldn't they just spend the few grand to do the work themselves like every other self respecting service/software company? Facebook: that is tacky.