One thing that struck me after six months in Shenzhen is the inexplicable obsession with workflow by the locals. Everywhere you go, there is likely to be an established workflow for doing things: Register at counter A, wait for your turn at room B on level 3, pay at counter F on the ground floor,… Read More »
Once again, mainstream media are falling over themselves to parrot special interest group statistics. I’m referring to the annual study on software piracy published earlier this month by the Business Software Alliance, which alleged that piracy cost the software industry $48 billion last year, up by $8 billion from 2006. Instead of questioning the reliability… Read More »
“By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher… and that is a good thing for any man.”Socrates “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”Abraham Lincoln “Getting married is easy.… Read More »
Sharon Stone opened her legs a while back to give her sagging career a useless boost. Now she opens her mouth, and it turns out that it’s just as useless and filthy. The clueless has-been is suggesting that the Sichuan earthquake in China, which claimed tens of thousands of lives, was “karma” for not being… Read More »
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