SpeedTest.net

Check the upload and download speed of your internet connection at SpeedTest.net

Even from China I was able to locate a close server in Hong Kong for tests. In China we’re all having very different experiences between our actual connection speeds and the speed advertised by our common provider. I’m at 9386 kb/s download and 465 kb/s upload.

Macau Typhoon Warning – Neoguri

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqyplJg233Q

For current, up to date Typhoon Level warnings for Macau and Hong Kong from the Hong Kong Observatory please visit:

(Update 07/09 – New Link for Typhoone Warnings in Macau:
http://www.smg.gov.mo/www/cvm/typhoon/fe_typhoonmain.htm ) 

http://www.smg.gov.mo/e_index.php

(Chinese TV report of Typhoon Level 8 “Neoguri” that hit Macau on April 20, 2008.

My first level 8 typhoon warning. Yipee! Reminds me of the hurricanes when I lived in Miami (hurricane parties are the best).

Friday, April 18 2008 – The Macau Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) yesterday issued a tropical cyclone warning for typhoon ‘Neoguri’, the earliest period at which such warnings have ever been issued.

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Legend of 1900 – Playing Love

httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=lgXW6XDnhXA

From the movie Legend of 1900 – “Playing Love”. During a recording session a piano player gets distracted by a girl looking into a window – he starts daydreaming and plays his love for her on the piano.