A businessman was in a great deal of trouble. His business was failing, he had put everything he had into the business, he owed everybody — it was so bad he was even contemplating suicide. As a last resort he went to a priest and poured out his story of tears and woe. When he… Read More »
If you’re a regular traveller who lugs around a generic-looking Samsonite luggage on the road, you might bemoan the fact that it can be difficult to identify your own bag, especially at crowded airports where several airlines share the same luggage carousel, sometimes almost simultaneously. To deal with this “problem”, an American company has come… Read More »
We are Borg. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. But we’re not home right now. So leave a message at the tone, and we’ll assimilate you later. You’re dazed, bewildered, trapped in a world without time, where sound collides with colour and shadows explode. You see a signpost up ahead – this is no… Read More »
Do you know it costs US$4,000 to process and recycle 1 ton of plastic bags, which can then be sold on the commodities market for only US$32? So it’s a good thing that governments around the world are taking a concerted effort to ban the use of plastic bags. Here in Shenzhen, many supermarkets are… Read More »
I got these two e-mail messages yesterday and their subject headers are uncannily similar. One is from Apple, titled “Make the most of your summer photos”. The other is from Microsoft, titled “Make the most of Windows Live”. Now, who is the copycat?
You know, I was casually scouring the Net for coverage on the Olympic closing ceremony and I am disgusted by the amount of negative press generated by Western media, which used every opportunity and reason to criticise China. If the US had topped the gold medal tally, would anyone have questioned its legacy in Iraq?… Read More »