http://www.hesspoint.com This is my new blog. Here I post interesting (and also sometimes funny) things I find on the web as well as some personal notes and thoughts. Feel free to add your comments! Sat, 31 May 2008 16:30:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here the card from the hotel I stayed in during my last business trip. Hilarious mistake! I swear it is not photoshopped (except the smudging of the license plate number). http://www.hesspoint.com/humor/2008/06/chinglish-without-words/ On May 12th Sichuan Province was rocked by an earthquake that strong that even here in Shanghai our office building started shaking. The quake, the worst in 30 years in China, brought unbelievable suffering to the people in the mountain region of Wenchuan and Beichuan. Just now as people are ... http://www.hesspoint.com/china/2008/05/earthquake-in-sichuan/ Since many many years I use LEO Dictionary to look up English - German translations. For a long time I have searched an online dictionary for Chinese but never quite found something as well as LEO.Now LEO has released their own Chinese - German dictionary which is exactly what has ... http://www.hesspoint.com/china/2008/04/leo-dictionary-now-also-for-chinese/ I just found a great site that helps everyone who needs to fly a lot. Seatguru lets you see which seats in a plane are good and which will give you the guarantee for no sleep. Just select the airline, the plane and you see a map of all seats ... http://www.hesspoint.com/travel/2008/03/seatguru/ When an old friend from university visited me in Shanghai last week we ended up looking up some other old friend's blog and found this unbelievably cool website. Let's just say we spend the next couple of hours (until 1h at night!) on this site. No, not that kind of ... http://www.hesspoint.com/travel/2008/03/where-do-you-fly-today/ This is my first non-China related post in some time. However I thought I have to blog this one. When reading an article on Spiegel Online about asteroids I found this link to a asteroid impact calculator. It is quite advanced. You can input how far you are from the impact ... http://www.hesspoint.com/miscellaneous/2008/03/armageddon-calculator/ Recently a friend pointed me to a service in Shanghai that is very helpful. When you are not at home and you need an address you can send a text message to a service number in Shanghai with the name of the place and it will send you the address ... http://www.hesspoint.com/china/2008/03/shanghai-helpers/ As many of you (at least if you also live in Shanghai) might have noticed, Shanghai has 3 new subway lines since End of last year. Now there is a great new website to plan your trip through the big city jungle: explore Shanghai metro. It calculates the quickest route and ... http://www.hesspoint.com/travel/2008/02/shanghai-metro/ When I wrote the last post, this was all still fun and harmless. However since the last few days it has seriously snowed, more then since the last 50 years. One night it snowed 20 cm. It might sound not much but in a city where it snows once in ... http://www.hesspoint.com/china/2008/01/update-white-shanghai/ Yesterday people in Shanghai experienced a rare weather phenomenon - it was snowing! As the city is hit by almost all kinds of weather during the year as rain, thunderstorms, typhoons and sizzling heat, snow almost never falls. As a proof I took some pictures with my cellphone camera: ... http://www.hesspoint.com/china/2008/01/white-shanghai/