Imagine when Microsoft is no longer a monopoly and Bill Gates is no longer the competitive freak that everybody loves to loathe. What kind of eulogies (or criticisms, for that matter) would you be expecting for the man who transformed the computer industry? Well, check out this parody site about the assassination of Bill Gates… Read More »
Would you eat nails for breakfast, as 11% of men and 3% of women said they would in a BusinessWeek survey of 2,509 Americans in middle management and above, 25 years and older, conducted by Beta Rearch Corp. using an online panel? This reminded me of the season finale of The Apprentice 4 where Randal… Read More »
Okay, I didn’t type this seemingly incomprehensible headline due to my now recovering carpal tunnel syndrome. The long string of characters is, in fact, the name a Swedish couple gave their child in defiance of a fine levied by the district court in Halmstad, southern Sweden for failing to register a name for the child… Read More »
Hummingbird’s Information Management Survey of 1,385 business executives revealed that 29% of departing directors have admitted to stealing corporate information when they left a company. The survey, conducted by polling company YouGov on behalf of Hummingbird, also found that 24% of the thefts involved using memory sticks or MP3 players to move data and 18%… Read More »
Innovative English names adopted by Chinese: Ancient Ma Broke Li Circle Xia Echo Lan Fairy Li Fanboly Wang Forrest Lee Fox Lin Gream Li Hammer Cheng Haven You Happy Yang Hawk Lin Holy Man Hoper Hou Icer Cheng Icey Wang Jams Pan Kiddy Han King Kong Leaf Zeng Lemon Tian Lever Zhong Money Lin Rubber… Read More »
A recent event provided testimony that Singapore is one of the “safest” places in the world. It has few disturbances to social harmony, and when it does, the agitator is swiftly put behind bars. The event also showed that the Singapore police force must have very few crimes to solve and very few law breakers… Read More »