Fuck the Shanghai govenrment, it’s just too complex and too hard to extend my residential card. There are just too many requirements that are hard too meet and take too long time to go through the process. I heard that some guy have took three month and several leaves from company to get his card renewed and this stupid card only has a valid period of one year. So I decide to give up the fucking damn useless residential card.

Shanghai Residential Card is a certification that differs from the Identification Card or the nortrious Hukou. In general, it’s for those who work in Shanghai but don’t have a Shanghai Hukou. For non-Shangnainese like me, they can only have their social insurance covered only if they get this card. I guess this is another conspiracy that the Shanghai government designed to constrain labor cost at a lower level. Why? Because when a employeree can’t get his/her residential card, the employer dosn’t have to pay his/her social insurance. In this way, the labor cost has been compressed.

My Residential Card expired in late 2006. And since then my social insurance has been suspended. When I want to learn driving, the stuff tell me that my residential card had expired and I had to renew it. I asked the stuff what if I can’t renew? He told me that I can appy a Temporary Residentail Card. And I can only apply a Temporary Residential Card when I have my Residential Card canceled. So, that just why I cancel it today.

When I went to the institution to cancel my card, two things amazed me. One is that it will take 30 days to cancel it. Second is that as long as I canceled my Residential Card, I can’t apply another one in the future. Fuck that! I just canced it and decided that I will never come back to work in this city when I leave next year.

Using smartphones are painful, I have to admit. Like a Windows desktop system, it crashes now and then and there are many times that you have to bear with its long processing duration. The time you spend every month for fixing various kinds of problems adds up to be not a small amount – several hours at least.

Since I got my Treo 650 last Octomber, I have been facing such problems. I tried to find a stable system in vain all days from that day I own this Treo 650 till now. These days it keeps shutting down phone function automatically without informing me. This malfunction really brings me trouble. The other day, my girlfriend and me made an appointment that she would call me when her CPA exam was done. I was still wondering why she hadn’t called me until she rush to home angrily. At then I find that my Treo 650 turned off automatically again.

So I’m really missing the simple non-smart mobilephones which is so trouble free and especially when today I saw the head of an automotive maker is still using the same phone as my previous common Nokia phone. I am sure the phone worth less than one thousand RMB nowadays.

So I now want a simple stalbe phone that can edit SMS, make calls, play MP3 and read text books. Do you have any recommendations? When I get the new phone maybe I can give my Treo 650 to my girlfriend who just lost her smartphone.

I attended WordPress China 2008 Shanghai Convention this afternoon just as I reported.

Alright, I’ve to admit that this is not a really successful event, for there’s little interesting topics and little sharing between the attendees. Matt, I’d like to describe that he is a yong, coy boy. Incredible thing is that this 24-year young man made WordPress at his 19th year when he found there’s no such kind of elegent, easy to use blog platform.

Matt discloses that the WordPress 2.7 will be released in this November with many attractive features such as one-click upgrading which I am always expecting. Future enhancements will be focus on SNS and API.

BTW, Matt’s blog domain is creative too. It’s Ma.tt, where tt stands for some small country I’ve never heard of.

I’ve accomplish my two objectives this afternoon. One is take a picture with Matt and the other one is having Matt write something for IdeaTalks.cn

Here they are. To be frank, I don’t really understand what Matt writes. Can anyone help on this?

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WordPress Update
Just upgrade my WordPress from version 2.3.2 to 2.6.2. This update should be done for a long time. WordPress new versions are introduced at a speed that is hard to follow.

To Attend a Wedding Ceremony This Afternoon
It’s a wedding ceremony of one of urecca’s colledge classmates. We are not sure how much HongBao is apropriate, but have decided to give 600RMB. I will bring my Pentax K10d to shot the ceremony.

Find that I am much boring
All my attention is distracted to worry about the gloomy economic and to criticize the shameless government. I should take more care of my life and people close to me.

Finished The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
As soon as Zhu Geliang died, the book became less interesting. Anyway, I finished this book for the second time. I believe I will read this book for several more times.

Wordcamp China 2008

Wordcamp China 2008 is going to debut in Beijing this Saturday. This is a convention for  all WordPress fans to get together,  sharing WordPress related stories and discussing its future perspective. There’s also a branch convention held in Shanghai this Sunday afternoon. And I’m glad to announce that, after paying for 20RMB, I’ve booked a seat in the Shanghai branch convention. You can see that I’ve put up a Wordcamp Logo at the right-top of this page. So guys, you can be looking forward my reports from the scene this weekend. 

The seats in Beijing and Shanghai have been limited to 300 and 200 respectively. If you want to join this event, you’d better take action ASAP. This link will lead you to the registration page. Only two days left, hurry up boys and girls.  

Four keynote speakers have been clinched for the Shanghai meeting. The speech which is most eagerly waited is The State of WordPress by Matt Mullenweg, the 24-year-old cofunder of the WordPress system. There are also three other bloggers that I’ve never heared of. The most exciting thing may be that I can meet a bunch of active WordPress bloggers and have a WordPress T-shirt. Haha, 20 RMB, what’s a good deal. 

The convention site is in Fudan University. So it will be very convenient for me to go there since I also live nearby. For latest update on this event you can either go to the official site china.wordcamp.org or go to the Wordcamp China Google Group.

Came across this event today at Shanghai Stadium. Put up some pictures here.

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