by Tom | Oct 10, 2011 | IT
Every time you visit a site with Like / +1 / whatever buttons on them, you tell Facebook / Google / whoever what page you are visiting before you even think about clicking the button or not. You may or may not care about this, but if you do and browse with Firefox,...
by Tom | Oct 10, 2011 | Business, Hong Kong / China
I hadn’t really got the idea of guanxi – a “network of connections and favours” – which helps oil the wheels of Chinese business. This article helped a lot: Why Latin American Companies Can’t Thrive In China –...
by Tom | Oct 10, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, View
Hong Kong’s dirty little secret – coffin homes | Danwei. The homes in this article are just round the corner from us and nearly visible from our flat. Incredible disparity in this city, as with many others.
by Tom | Oct 10, 2011 | Business
Fortune 500. Fascinating interactive chart based on rank, revenue and profits of Fortune 500 from 1955. I enjoyed seeing quite how short the life of companies can be and how unexpectedly curved their trajectories can be.
by Tom | Oct 10, 2011 | Science, View
Great mash-ups of two of the best presenters of science, ever. Glorious. [update: and have a fly over the earth from space for some more loveliness]
by Tom | Oct 10, 2011 | Reading
A very fine Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, IMHO. Definitely a piece of geek reductio, but nothing wrong with that.
by Tom | Oct 9, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
Thanks to Bruce and Ming for breaking our hairy crab cherry in proper Shanghai style. And to Lesley for putting up with it all. Unusual for steamed crabs to beat the rugby for interest, but they did. Personally, the males won out, but each gender had its own goodness....
by Tom | Oct 9, 2011 | Personal
If the rugby wasn’t enough, CitySuper has piled it on in its celebration of the best food our great nations have to offer. Yup, the potato. In five varieties.
by Tom | Oct 8, 2011 | Science, View
Fabulous micro photography. All of them are worth a second look, but I found the jumping spider eyes the freakiest.
by Tom | Oct 7, 2011 | Reading, Tech
Great new feature on the new Kindles allows you to follow thinking in a book well beyond the boundaries of the book itself. A sort of algorithmically guessed set of mini-internet searches that you might want to do. I already love having a dictionary built in to look...
