Creating a locked folder (Macs)

The question often comes up, how do you create a locked folder? Well, prepare to be enlightened.

Step one: click on spotlight and type in "disk utility"

Step two: Click on new image

Step three: name your "disk" and choose 128 bit encription

Step four: put in your password

Violá, your done

An easier way: go to http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/networking_security/espionage.html to download "espionage" and lock folders easily.

minkster

A Beijing Trip

First, after flying into the Beijing Airport, I went to Sun Village, a village where the kids live becuase their parents are in jail.

Next, I visited the Olympic Park, and went inside of the Birds Nest for the second time. You can actually go on the field, but not on the track.

Minkster

next: The Hutongs, Planning Exibition, And More

Crazy Taxi Driver

Some things are much different here in Shanghai than America... Such as: barganing, shopping, and... taxis. The taxi drivers here pay NO attention to speed limit. Here's some basic information you might want to know.

• Taxi Drivers are ranked in "stars" one star is the worst, and five stars are extremely rare
• Hold onto your seat. Your going to need to!
• Crashes are negotiated on the spot. If an agreement for paying can't be agreed on, the police are called to help.

My experience goes as follows: Start at the Super Brand Mall. Here comes a taxi. I wave it down. The driver doesn't really know the way, and so we're telling him where to go. The average fare to our house is 15 yuan, and so when we get there, and the meter shows 27 yuan, we're not happy. We tell him that we should only pay him 15 yuan. He gets really angry, and starts to speed back to the Jin Mao as fast as possible. We tell him to stop, and he doesn't stop. Finally, my mom pulls open the door, and out we get (of course he stopped when my mom opened up the door!). We pay him the fair, and out we go.

Hope you don't have an experience like that!

~minkster

Photo from http://www.wangjianshuo.com/personal/places/shanghai/shanghai-qiangshen.taxi-head.jpg; http://farm1.static.flickr.com/201/476815738_2fb84f9e3f.jpg?v=0