There are some reviews of Eric Clapton’s Shanghai concert up on his web site. The set lists of the concerts in other countries make interesting reading. There’s only two place in which Cocaine was not performed: China and Singapore. Think about it.

Baseline Mag has an overview of how MySpace coped with rapid growth. Basically a good lesson in how not to build a dynamic database backed website. 

Shanghai To Issue Spit Bags To Taxi Drivers. Nice. Would you rather ride around with a bag of spit all day or wind down your window and expectorate?

Here’s a list of some JavaScript books:

• Pro Javascript Techniques by John Resig - amazon.com
• PPK on JavaScript by Peter-Paul Koch - amazon.com
• JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th edition by David Flanagan - amazon.com
• The JavaScript Anthology by James Edwards and Cameron Adams - amazon.com
• Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax by Christian Heilmann - amazon.com
• DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith - amazon.com
• Bulletproof Ajax by Jeremy Keith - amazon.com

Personally I spend a lot of time with The Definitive Guide.

Eric Clapton played Shanghai last night. Lots of old tunes from the Derek and the Dominoes era. More details here. Talking of Dereks one of his two support guitarists on this tour is Derek Trucks.

Shanghai Metro has a new website. There’s no metro map on the site though. Why would there be?

Lexical analysis of recent keynotes from SteveJ, BillG and MikeyD.

Note to self: for the following to work on a Mac with fink’s python

Sparkle is a programmers tool that automates application updates.

ChocoFlop is a CoreImage based image editor currently in pre-release. Looks good.