Fine Dining
A few people have asked what restaurant served that live lobster. The restaurant is Dynasty and it’s unlike any restaurant you’ve ever seen – at least on this side of the world. Dynasty is a restaurant in Shanghai (the city has three of them). Created because Deng Xiaoping said, “To get rich is glorious!†Dynasty is a perfect example of […]
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Ramblings
When I set the Top Commentators Plugin to reset every week, I wasn’t sure what day of the week it will reset on. Now I know – Saturday. I just noticed this now because comment spam king, Michael Kwan, wasn’t on the list. *Completely shocked* However, I’m sure he’ll power his way back on somehow. This is the first day […]
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Business The Net
A link is when you link to a top level domain, like johnchow.com. A deep link is when you link to an article within the top-level domain, like Playing With My Food. Google and other search engines when determining your ranking and placement in the search results count both. When writing a blog post you should always try to deep […]
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Reviews Technology The Net
In addition to the technology review site Futurelooks, my friend Stephen Fung is also the owner of Mega Tech News. I was talking to Stephen two days ago about trying ReviewMe (aff) from an advertiser’s standpoint. After all, they now have an affiliate program that gives you $25.00 for referring an advertiser. And since I can refer myself, I can […]
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Fine Dining Videos
How many times have your mom told you not to play with your food? Well, she may change her mind if she saw what I had for dinner. Either that or she’ll faint. Some will no doubt use the following video as proof that I am the root of all evil. Not only do I slay baby pandas, but I […]
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Wordpress
This just came in across the WordPress dashboard. Thanks to Nick Mercer for emailing me about it as well. Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately. Longer explanation: This morning […]
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The Net
I got some T shirts coming in from Dirty Microbe, home of the World’s best shirts & stuff. I don’t know which shirts they’re sending me but I plan to give them all away. Need contest ideas! Suggestions please. WootAgent is now out of private beta and available for download. If you’re a Wooter, you’ll want the agent. Came across […]
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Business The Net
I never started John Chow dot Com to make money. This was just a place for me to post my miscellaneous ramblings about whatever was on my mind. While I cover a number of topics, from car to fine dining, the main focus of this blog is about making money on the Internet. Back in September of last year, I […]
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