If you’ve been reading the news, China is having one of the worst snow storms in fifty years. There are over 60 million people without power and up to 100,000 people stranded at train stations. With the New Years holiday quickly approaching, the forcast is for more of the same. I still walked from the hotel to the training facility, but it is an absolute mess.

I’ve almost been killed a couple times, not because of the ice and snow on the roads, but because cars have the right-of-way without exception. Here’s an example. I was using a crosswalk, I had 43 seconds to go according the walk sign. In Shanghai, it is legal to take a right on read, WITHOUT STOPPING! So as I’m about to walk across the final lane of a six lane road, I almost got run over by a bus because they don’t stop for the crosswalk. Youch! The last time I had this much trouble was when I was in Oxford, England and kept looking in the wrong direction when crossing the street because they drive on the left side of the road.

Yesterday was spent building out the SharePoint Resource Center. This is a Knowledge Base for all things SharePoint at Autodesk. Iain Munro at ContentEditorWebPart sent me an email early last week describing how to use a LyteBox in a Content Query Web Part. It’s one of the slickest applications I’ve seen; pretty brainless to setup and the “Wow!” factor is extremely high. I used it to run the screencasts demos for the resource center. You can check out an example of LyteBox in use on Mike Gannotti’s site. I intend on controlling access to all my screencasts and external links with LyteBox.

Iain also put up a new navigation idea that is definitely worth checking out: use image tabs to control your navigation. This guy is running a knockout site that’s worth the hassle of the confusing navigation to get at the content. Poke around. I’m sure you’ll find something you like.

Today is the beginning of the Power User Workshop. We’ll see what else I can learn with the room scheduled for Standing Room Only.