Last Saturday my wife bought me an iPhone and I am so happy with it! It feels like a gadget from a sci-fi movie. However I am a bit nervous about carrying around a 4000RMB piece of gadget. I already lost the BlackBerry which was only 500RMB, but if I ever lost this it would be a disaster!!

Anyway, look for a full review soon on Reviewsarama.com

In the meantime here are some photos:

I think it’s safe to assume that everybody hates spam. When I was younger I would never check the mail box, even though it was just outside our door. So I didn’t care about spam mail until I was living by myself. It started while I was doing my undergrad in UK, everyday we would receive tons of junk mail through the mail hole in our door. So whenever we went out we would see all the junk on the floor.

Of course junk took a whole new dimension when talking about e-mails. I’ve always used webmail, because I moved a lot especially during my uni years. My first e-mail was hotmail, and I would use that to sign up to lots of stupid online sites/services, so I would get hundreds of junk mail everyday. I still check this e-mail to this day, but only to remove spam mail. Gmail is much better at it, even though that is a public e-mail (the one I use for this site).

Another spam is comments on this website. This is a blog that allows people to comment on my posts. Unfortunately there are programs called bots that crawl around the web and automatically leave spam comments with links to their own website. The more links a website get, the higher its rank in search engines is, the higher hits it gets, the higher ads revenue it gets. Luckily Wordpress is pretty good at fighting this kind of spam.

Ever since I moved to Shanghai, I get a new kind of spam: text messages on cellphones. I never used to get them in Italy or UK, but now I keep getting stupid text messages telling me about the weather, or some new phone services or other things that I don’t know about. The irony is that they’re obviously all in chinese, and I can’t even read them!! So this spam is really wasted on me. Do you get this kind of spam in your country?

Apple just announced a few new products. Go here to read my thoughts on them.

After years of blocking all blogspot.com blogs, China recently lifted the ban on these blogs. And now Google has announced new features in beta for these same blogs. Coincidence? Did Google manage to convince China to allow them to launch the new Blogger.com in China as well? If they did, what did they give China in return?

Personally I don’t see China allowing Google’s free blog platform to be freely available here for long. They’d have a hard time controlling so many free blogs, plus they’d rather allow Chinese created blog platforms, rather than american ones. This really puzzles me. I stopped using Blogger.com last year, but I will try out the new features, now that I can have access to them…

Update: I created a new blog with Blogger.com, and you can check out my review of the new features here.