Yearly Archives: 2008
Addie Update #2: The Youth in Asia Debate
A couple of days ago I drew up a calendar on a whiteboard Maggie uses to keep track of her yoga clients. The calendar shows the dates from December 23 (the day before we found out Addie was suffering from aflatoxicity) to January 4th (one day after the vet said she would be lucky to …
Addie Update
Having been up until 4am the last two nights watching my dog suck endless bottles of medical juice into her veins, my head’s not really in the game – but I wanted to post a bit of an update on her condition and the situation as a whole. First, she’s de-energized but still fighting. She’s …
US-made Optima dog food in China may have killed my dog
In what’s poised to be the absolute worst Christmas ever, there is an excellent chance my dog – my awesome, beautiful, wonderful, fantastic dog – is going to die. After posting the other day about the possibility of her having come into contact with aflatoxin contaminated Optima dog food, a visit to the vet yesterday …
Feeding your dog Optima in China? Stop.
The last two days we’ve been dealing with a bit of a scare. We got a call from our pet shop asking us if we’d seen the news. Optima – the decent-quality, American-made dog food we’ve always fed our pup – was issuing a major recall because contaminants had been found in it. Apparently since …
What is Google China thinking?
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In cruising around the Internet I came across a humorous post at The Next Web asking, “What is Google thinking?“. The author points out that Google has some rather interesting “suggestions” for the simple phrase “How long does…”
The auto-complete feature that Google recently rolled out worldwide has been an integrated part of Google.cn for quite some time. Longer active history or not, I was curious to see what Google China had on its mind using the same phrase in Chinese (duo chang shi jian)?”
America more communist than China?
Aside from the proliferation of Chinese food other than Cantonese world-wide, the coolest part of the People’s Republic’s grand opening 30 years ago was that the country started down the long road of disassembling State-run industries. If communism has proven anything, it’s that the government has no ability to properly run a business, any more …
Shanghai woman refuses to be held captiva by tower, viral ad?
With marketing budgets being slashed in the “new economy”, low-cost/high-return word-of-mouth advertising is going to be more relevant than ever.A new viral video spreading its way across Chinese forums shows a Shanghai woman arguing with a tow truck driver. Despite her Chevrolet Captiva‘s rear wheels being hitched to the tow truck, she jumps in her SUV and drives away, with tow truck in tow.
Addie’s First Birthday
Alright, I never wanted to become one of those people that have a dog and they go on and on about their dog like it was their child. I never did. But I also never expected that such a connection could be formed between myself and a dog. I’ve had lots of pets, including a …
MS Windows hacking Chinese computers or just Chinese pricing?
When in October Microsoft, via their Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) engine, began blacking out pirated versions of their operating system across China, you would have thought they were poisoning babies with the upheaval it caused.
A lawyer in Beijing went so far as to call it a crime and to cry out “That’s not fair.”
But it is fair. You can’t legitimately expect a company not to do everything in its power to prevent the illegal sale and use of its product.
Qifang becomes first Chinese WEF Technology Pioneer
The World Economic Forum has just announced Shanghai-based Qifang as one of its prestigious Technology Pioneers of 2009. Joining the ranks of past winners (Google, Wikipedia, Mozilla), Qifang is the first Chinese company to receive the honor.Qifang, which takes its name from the poem “????????? (Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend)”, is a Web service that operates under a simple, yet excellent, principle: “Everyone should be able to get an education, no matter their financial means.”
