HitHat - Billy Qiu's Blog

Yesterday night in Shanghai Pudong Shangri-La Hotel, BearingPoint held its 2004 Greater China Annual Party. More than 700 employees in Greater China attended this party. I’m glad to know that BearingPoint China now has more than 1200 employees, and we made many successes in the year 2004 and are about to continue our sustainable growth in China.

More picture please click on the picture thumbnails below.

After a second time I applied for “Google AdSense” publisher for my blog web site the day before yesterday, today I finally I got an approval.

Google AdSense is an Ad Service from Google that display relative Ads for Google AdWords Clients based on the Ad publisher’s pages content.

It was once introduced by my friend Jianshuo Wang in his blog “Google Adsense on sites in China”, and I also tried the application but failed last time, due to that my site is “Personal or chat site”, which Google once disallowed.

But with the boost of the Blog community, I think Google had re-considered its policy and opened the ad publishing opportunity for those who manages weblog sites.

Give me your feedback on the “Skysraper” type of google ads display on the right of every page.

Hope you kinda like it!

In the year end of 2004, Microsoft owned web portal “MSN” has released a lot of exciting services. One for the new MSN Messenger, which is now Version 7.0, and the other should be the “MSN Spaces”.

MSN Spaces is the web spaces for web users to create a series of their individual web archives, including the weblog, articles, photos, site links etc. Although blogging idea is not as fresh as it once was a year ago, MSN spaces’ integration with MSN Messenger had brought it with much advantage over its competiters such as blogger.com (blogspot.com). Well, also in the mainland China where MSN messenger nowadays is among the most popular IM of the most personal computer users who use a Windows box, plus the condition that almost all of the blog sites from blogspot is banned in China, I think there is much opportunity that MSN Spaces might be more popular before long.

Take a look at my friend JZK, aka (ZhenKai) Jiang, Keen’s new MSN Spaces (Chinese Encoding: zh_CN).
http://spaces.msn.com/members/zhenkai/

In the early of this year which is Jan 18, it had a big snow in Shanghai, which already surprised me a lot. I did blog this event with big excitement in this post

BRAVO! Snowing In Shanghai Today (Cool Pics + Video by Billy) .

Well, you probably cannot imagine, just before the New Year of 2005, it snowed again heavily in Shanghai. And this time I mean really heavily.

Take a look at some pics that I shot on the next day of snow when it had stopped but everything was in white, pretty nice.

However the big snow did bring us a lot of trouble, we were stuck in Pudong Office for hours and were unable to get an Taxi cab to get back home that night. And later when Harry’s uncle drove us home, we had to go across the HuangPu river by the tunnel, since all the bridges was ice-covered, which was very slippery and thus blocked by the police.