皇帝果真大鱼大肉乎？
那倒未必。吃的道理很简单，桌子再大，酒菜再多，但一个人每餐能吃下肚的，也只有一个胃那么大的容量而已。 根据“满清十三朝宫闱秘史”：清德宗每食三膳，其馔有数十品，罗列满案。然离御座稍远之馔半已臭腐，盖连日以原馔供也；近御座之馔虽不臭腐，然大率久熟干冷，不能可口，皇上每食不能饱。有时欲命御膳房易一馔品，御膳房必奏明西太后，西太后辄以俭德责之，故皇上竟不敢言 Related post:四海困穷，则天禄永终 Technorati Tags: 皇帝 大鱼大肉 清德宗 御膳房 西太后
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A different kind of 7/11
Banks and post offices remain open through the weekend in Shenzhen. That’s right, they are open seven days a week. Back home in Singapore, this level of service is unheard of. Banks, post offices and many other public institutions are open at most six days a week. The funny thing is, some months ago, I… Read More »
Looking through coloured eyes
In her article, “Fox In Yahoo!’s Henhouse“, Wendy Tanaka of Forbes wrote: “Icahn will have help in getting a Microsoft deal done. As part of his settlement with Yahoo!, two of his cronies will also get seats on the board.” Regardless of your opinion of Carl Icahn, I find it odd that a reporter for… Read More »
Poor use of a multimedia device
According to Parks Associates’ Digital Media Habits II report, people are increasingly using their TVs to play music at home. The report was based on a Q3 2007 survey of 2,000 broadband households in the US and Canada. The survey found that the number of households using a TV to listen to music equalled the… Read More »
iExtort
In his post “The iPhone iFiasco“, Mitch Wagner wrote about his seven-hour ordeal buying an iPhone 3G and concluded: Well, some kind of apology would be nice, along with a bit of cash to compensate customers who had problems with activation, similar to the gift certificates Apple gave out last year when they cut iPhone… Read More »
Need a laptop? Go to the airport!
Apparently, 12,000 laptops are lost each week in major airports in the US, more than 65% of which are never reclaimed, according to a study sponsored by Dell and conducted by the Ponemon Institute. (You can download the PDF here.) The problem is not just a matter of hardware loss, but “53% of people admit… Read More »