October 2011
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Orion and Sapporo
The Japanese beer brands I like are incidentally of two extremes; not about taste or price but demography. One is Orion from Okinawa, the most southern islandic prefecture of Japan (so south it used to be an independent state), and the other is Sapporo from, well, Sapporo, the capital city of Hokkaido, Japan’s northern tip.
The two brands share a common character: pale, by European...
May 2011
3 posts
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More on democracy and mediocrity
Last time I said:
In business decisions, sometimes democracy just leads to mediocrity.
Well, I think I may have to elaborate more on that.
Democracy is not always bad from the business decision perspective; you hear from colleagues, subordinates and customers, you get a better idea of what things should be like (I didn’t mention top executives, since you have to listen to them by...
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“In business decisions, sometimes democracy just leads to mediocrity.”
“La guerre est un état naturel.”
– Napoléon Bonaparte
April 2011
8 posts
“I like iPhones, but I really don’t give a damn about white ones or...”
The Simple Best: The Problem With Androids →
thesimplebest:
Near the beginning of Star Wars, Luke’s Uncle Owen decides to buy C-3PO and a little red astromech droid from the Jawas. The red astromech droid blows its motivator—deliberately, according to some Expanded Universe sources—and Luke, at C-3PO’s encouragement, points out to his uncle that R2-D2…
Adobe's Digital Publishing mistake →
The following situation described in the “The Simple Best” Web site is what we’re actually facing now and in the future. I wish Adobe can come up with a more realistic model that addresses the need of smaller publishers, especially the ones — the ones like us — that are not in a economic-scaled market like the United States.
Perhaps it’s foolish of me to be...
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“Many people seem to have the ‘I am not saying I’m smart, but all you guys are...”
An undesirable experience with GoDaddy.com
I wrote about my bad experience with GoDaddy.com a while ago, and today LifeHacker came up with an article named “How to Jump Ship from GoDaddy to a Better Web Host and Registrar”; this is exactly what I want.
Regardless of your feelings about GoDaddy’s moral standing, their service is frustrating and restrictive. If you’re sick of paying for crappy hosting and want to...
Totally understood.
Say something different.
Patricia Ryan spoke in TED saying “Don’t insist on English!” Ironically, it’s only said by an English-speaking teacher to attract more attention than many others who had said the same thing before her in other languages.
Of course, this is a cultural, economical and even a political thing that goes against the real voice by people who speak something else.
IMHO, the...
September 2010
2 posts
Lone time no see.
Well, the title is no mistake. It’s been a while I’ve not landed on this page. As time goes by, there comes a distinction between “crowded and alone” and “alone but crowded”, and I am looking for a way to bring them together.
This is why I came back and take a peek. Stay tuned.
July 2009
4 posts
June 2009
1 post
May 2009
1 post
April 2009
2 posts
January 2009
5 posts
December 2008
3 posts
November 2008
15 posts
“梅鐸說：「可能過時的不是報紙，會過時的是有些編輯、記者與業主，他們忘了報紙最珍貴的資產是報紙與讀者的連結關係。」”
– 「報業前景樂觀，但主管要跟上時代」
October 2008
108 posts
HP Mini 1000 第二代輕省筆電正式發表 →
看起來不錯。然而遺憾的是，只要滑鼠按鈕在觸控板的兩邊，我就很難將它列入考慮。
用「aNobii」（藏書網站）在Google上搜尋，第一個是官方首頁，第二個竟然是我。:P