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I've written before about the World being taken over by Google and the latest announcement about Google's plan to launch their Chrome OS seems to be another step in that direction. What I am am finding though is that because of the OS aspect of the name, many commentators are automatically putting this dark horse [...]
The end of the world is nigh
First of all, I'd like to apologise to my readers for not posting for quite a while. It seems that the good folk at the Golden Shield project have been working overtime after the Olympics because the internet freedom we experienced last year has all but been taken away from us poor sods based in [...]
For the record. What happened to the Sichuan Schools 360 days ago. http://cmp.hku.hk/2009/05/07/1599/
Today, I was reminded that next week on the 12th May marks the anniversary of the Great Sichuan Quake. It doesn't feel like a year and even from the safety of Shanghai as I morbidly watched this disaster unfold , I was moved on a daily basis by stories of tragedy, bravery, unity and cowardice. I [...]
Here’s another example of life sized imitation people.
If you travel around Shanghai you’ll often run into life size realistic statues of people doing random things like walking the dog or in this case reading books. It’s as if the city is getting ready to be put into a time capsule or an episode of the Planet of the Apes.
Perhaps a throwback [...]
I was strolling through Carrefour Gubei when I saw this. Is it a breach of trademark when it is obvious that the product bearing the offending logo is not from the trademark holder?
I recently took a look at my blogging presence on the web and realized that the last couple of posts that I have echoed over my blogs have been, well pretty boring to be honest. Somewhat like being forced to watch a holiday slideshow of someone you neither know nor really care about. When I [...]
Having spend most of the last nine years in Shanghai, I’ve taken countless trips to Beijing over the years, but this last Easter weekend was the first time I ever went there as a tourist. To be honest (and I hate to admit it as I have grown to love Shanghai) Beijing has a lot [...]

