When we read about successful people, we often read about how capable he is in certain field of specialty. Warren Buffet, the Oracle of Omaha, world’s greatest stock market investor. Bill Gates, Billionaire Computer Genius, world’s richest man. We tend to overemphasis on the man and overlooked the fact that successful men are successful because […]
Year: 2009
Hiring after layoffs
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 […]
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 […]
Obama Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages
One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was impossible to know which programs could be updated, or even which computers could be used for which purposes. The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes , found computers outfitted with […]
Association of Bloggers (Singapore)
Cowboy Caleb message me a few days ago whether I have seen the new Association of Bloggers (Singapore). I have and was one of the things I followed with quite a bit of amusement after the fury. But I hesitated to comment on it because, 1) I could be one of the “foreign blogger” who […]
More like a father…and feeling more guilty
It was a relatively warm weekend (10degree…how fast your expectation of “warm” changes :-). So we spend the weekend with the kids; playing with their scooters and electric automobile in the garden and shopping/dinning in the nearby mall. Out of the blue, my wife said to me that I am beginning to behave “more like […]