I’m behind the times again, aren’t I? If you’re even more behind than me, come on in and take a look—makes me feel a bit better about myself.

Just noticed that Google’s music search has gone live (am I living under a rock again?) [caption id=”attachment_89” align=”aligncenter” width=”500” caption=”The preview player is pretty slick too, wow”][/caption]

Too funny — I found an Anti-Aquarius group on Douban, and the name left me very very very very very very curious. The first thought that flashed through my mind (and the last one before I clicked the link at thunderclap speed — no time to cover your ears, never mind steal a bell): slip in and take a look…

I joined the “We’re Not Otaku Boys or Girls” group on Douban. Ugh, there’s actually a Jiongxing community, and even Jiongjiong TV…

Talk about rotten luck! Today while making a payment, I discovered that the familiar [E-Payment Card Payment] button had vanished into thin air….. I went to the ABC (Agricultural Bank of China) official site and found that just 16 hours earlier, ABC had suspended most e-payment card payment services:

At 12:00 Beijing time on June 27, 2008 (00:00 US Eastern Time on June 27), Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates officially retired today. Related reports: Bill Gates officially retires For det...

(Updated 6.18 — see the end of this post) Got an email this morning: a letter about Download Day. Don’t forget to join us for Firefox 3 Download Day! Download Day is almost here! Mark your calendar, write it on your hand, or stick on a little sticky note. Download Day starts on June 17, 2008. Pledge map hoho, the 17th of this month is FF3 Download Day. Chinese FF fans, remember to raid then~

Came across yet another new Google service — Google Site. This service is roughly the equivalent of a special-interest group site or a personal homepage service, letting you share your articles, photos, videos, schedules, life plans and so on with a group of people who share your interests. It lets you create and edit web pages online as easily as editing a document. You could treat it as just another personal homepage service, but I think it’s better suited as a platform for a club to share and communicate. Take this guy’s, for example: http://sites.google.com/a/googleuniversity.org/ski-club/Home He set up a ski club homepage on GSITE.

(Late May update: Firefox screen word capture is now supported!) On May 8, Kingsoft and Google, the world’s largest search engine company, jointly held a press conference at the Avic Hotel in Beijing to announce the official release of their co-branded product, Google PowerWord. http://cp.iciba.com/news/2008/05/08/120894.shtml Downloads are already available online. http://download.iciba.com/pwl/powerwordlite.25269.3008.exe PowerWord’s size has shrunk from over 300 MB to just over 20 MB! This makes downloads easier for users while saving disk space. PowerWord users will also get timely access to a rich vocabulary sourced from the internet. Google PowerWord has three major features: Free Internet-based Innovative machine translation technology