So there was this news that Google is still hiring after layoffs, which I normally won’t consider a “news”. I don’t find it unusual; any company would have fat is some portion but always desperately looking for talents in others, layoff or otherwise. But speaking to one of the staff recently, I just realized how […]
Month: March 2009
Free market competition
Try to explain why PVG-PEK-SFO ticket is CHEAPER than PEK-SFO ticket. Same airline and even same flight code. No, I am so silly to fly back to PVG (Shanghai) only to take a PVG-PEK-SFO cheaper ticket. Anyway, back in SFO yet again. 3rd time this month. The guy at the immigration was puzzled. Me too.
Wofo Temple – 卧佛寺
RMB 10 each from Wofo Temple…hand-made from leaves. Dragon Phoenix
The End of Wall Street’s Bloom
Stuck with day-to-day fire fighting, I finally got around to read the excellent article by Michael Lewis. It is a wonderful article of how the whole financial sector breakdown, to the world we have today, in simple terms of how CDO and CDS adds to the mess we are in. (I understand CDO, but I […]
Strange Encounters in Bay Area
I am in the Palo Alto, on a transit back to Shanghai, with strange ecounters in the last 24 hours. Like sitting at University Cafe talking to some friends (Nick, David and Andy) yesterday and turning my back to see Loic, who is meeting Benjamin, another new friend I just got to know just 2 […]
ICANN Public Forum – Plea from CJK
This is James Seng. First, I would like to thank the staff who have work very hard for the revised gTLD RFP. The quality of the RFP clearly show the effort the staff have put into the document, despite facing very challenging and sometimes conflicting comments from the community. It is important for me to […]