I am in Shenzhen at the moment and I don’t seem to have access to any blog hosted by blogspot, which is a drag because a few of the blogs that I read regularly, not to mention my own, are hosted there. The weird thing is, although I can post a new entry to my… Read More »
Do we have a Fake Steve Jobs in our midst? Apparently, someone has been blogging about Global Sources at WordPress since October 2006. Judging by the information presented on the blog, I suspect this could be the work of an insider. Perhaps my colleagues in editorial can do some investigative journalism. (But make sure you… Read More »
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to… Read More »
The following is a letter to the editor by Lawrence A. Bullis, originally published in the Arizona Republic: Every day, some new do-gooder is trying to save us from ourselves. We have so many laws and safety commissions to ensure our safety that it seems nearly impossible to have an accident. The problem is that… Read More »
The person behind you in the supermarket runs his cart into the back of your ankle. You have to inform five different sales people in the same store that you’re just browsing. The elevator stops on every floor and nobody gets in. The car behind you blasts its horn because you let a pedestrian finish… Read More »
Over the weekend, I went to watch Ratatouille, another great animation from the director of The Incredibles. In my opinion, this is probably the best integration of plot and theme by Pixar, since its own integration with Disney. The part toward the end where food critic Anton Ego takes a bite of Rémy’s ratatouille is… Read More »