I am a twitter user and a facebook user. On facebook, I have it set so that the status message is automatically pulled from my twitter stream. Recently, I’ve noticed that many of my tweets don’t make it onto facebook.
One reason I like the twitter messages going to facebook is that facebook has a [...]

As a quick follow-up to yesterday’s somewhat rambling post on the subject: even if the government expels the company, Google won’t be leaving China.
Seemingly lost amidst all the windbaggery on this topic is the fact that according to Alexa, google.cn is as of this writing the #3 most-trafficked website in China. google.com, though, is #6.
I’m [...]

The Chinese expat net-o-sphere is abuzz this week with Google’s challenge to the Chinese government. I’ve seen commentary ranging from mindless protestor-like exaltations of a company “sticking it to The Man” to the more patronizing and pragmatic “why would Google want to give up all the money they can make?”

First, as someone living in [...]

I was going on with a normal day, getting work done, listening to music, and now, here I am drowning my sorrows in beer and questioning the significance of my existence.
I visited a site that I never visit today: Walmart. This screen capture is a portion of the site’s header.

But it was this bit [...]

It’s been a long time since my last post. Truth be told, I’ve been stimulated to write on a few occasions, but just too busy to write anything.
Anyhow, I’m annoyed today, and there’s nothing that motivates me like a little annoyance. There is yet another Windows-specific worm going around in email right now [...]

Tonight I got this email:
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Hot and beautiful gals….. 2 live shows with FULL chat
Geisha Japaneese gallery….tons on beauties
Movie clips and videos with a HUGE database of
action packed scenes…..behind, upfront, classic, etc…
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That’s all there was in it. Apparently, they just wanted to inform me that somewhere there exists a HUGE database of action packed scenes, [...]

If anyone out there cares, here’s a site that I’m firmly in support of: http://www.boycott-riaa.com/.
This whole thing is a complicated issue, I agree, with validity on both sides, but in the end I just think the RIAA is desperately trying to maintain their castle while it’s under siege from all sides by Napster and [...]