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Finally an Apple Mail.app Alternative
Like everything else about Apple, Apple Mail is well past it’s high point. It may work OK if you’ve got a small Inbox, but if you’ve got many GB of messages, the app responds very slow, crashes often, and most importantly, looses messages. Yes – that’s right – LOOSES YOUR EMAIL. Sparrow was a nice [...]
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Book Recommendations
Everyone Should Read The Red Queen (Ridley) The Blank Slate (Pinker) Influence: Phychology of Persuasion 7 Habits of Highly Effective People The E-Myth Demon Haunted World Everyone in Business Should Read Grinding It Out Made In America Alchemy of Finance The Art of Profitability Adventure Capitalist Investment Biker
China (中国）, iPhone
China Travel Tips, Part 1. Internet & Telephone
Local SIM or Int’l GSM Roaming That is good question. If you’re going to be in China for 4 days or less, there’s not much point in hasseling with the local SIM card – since the process will probably take 3+ hours inluding: travel time, locating fairly priced SIM card dealer, installing card, verifying adaquate [...]
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US Steps up in Asia
The Obama administration has been talking about a “pivot back into Asia” for several months now, yet we have seen little evidence that the United States is prepared to challenge China in East Asia. That may finally be changing. According to Japanese media, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on Aug. 5 discussed the potential for [...]
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M.I.A. – But I’m Back
Life has been very busy lately, so I haven’t had much time to write. The more I see, the less that I feel like writing about it. It seems that anything we write could always be used against at some point in the future, but if we simply stay silent – there is no downside. [...]
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Finally an Apple Mail.app Alternative
Posted on 14 March 2013
Like everything else about Apple, Apple Mail is well past it’s high point. It may work OK if you’ve got a small Inbox, but if you’ve got many GB of messages, the app responds very slow, crashes often, and most importantly, looses messages. Yes – that’s right – LOOSES YOUR EMAIL. Sparrow was a nice [...] Continue Reading
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Book Recommendations
Posted on 16 August 2012
Everyone Should Read The Red Queen (Ridley) The Blank Slate (Pinker) Influence: Phychology of Persuasion 7 Habits of Highly Effective People The E-Myth Demon Haunted World Everyone in Business Should Read Grinding It Out Made In America Alchemy of Finance The Art of Profitability Adventure Capitalist Investment Biker Continue Reading
China (中国）, iPhone
China Travel Tips, Part 1. Internet & Telephone
Posted on 10 August 2012
Local SIM or Int’l GSM Roaming That is good question. If you’re going to be in China for 4 days or less, there’s not much point in hasseling with the local SIM card – since the process will probably take 3+ hours inluding: travel time, locating fairly priced SIM card dealer, installing card, verifying adaquate [...] Continue Reading
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US Steps up in Asia
Posted on 09 August 2012
The Obama administration has been talking about a “pivot back into Asia” for several months now, yet we have seen little evidence that the United States is prepared to challenge China in East Asia. That may finally be changing. According to Japanese media, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on Aug. 5 discussed the potential for [...] Continue Reading
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M.I.A. – But I’m Back
Posted on 08 August 2012
Life has been very busy lately, so I haven’t had much time to write. The more I see, the less that I feel like writing about it. It seems that anything we write could always be used against at some point in the future, but if we simply stay silent – there is no downside. [...] Continue Reading
China (中国）, Economics （经济学）
China CPI – Follow the Wet Market
Posted on 30 May 2012
HKTDC（香港易发局）sourced an Hong Kong Economic Journal EJ Insight（信报）article about measuring predicting Chinese inflation. See Article. There are eight major categories in the CPI basket. They are food, clothes, tobacco and liquor, health and personal care goods, home appliances and maintenance, housing costs (mostly rentals), transport and communication, and expenses on entertainment, education and culture. Influence [...] Continue Reading
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Brookings: US-China Strategic Distrust
Posted on 02 May 2012
Very accurate review of Sino-US relations by the Brookings Institute. Brief (six minute) video. Kenneth G. Lieberthal, April 02, 2010 Although both Beijing and Washington consider the U.S.-China relationship to be the most important in the world, distrust of each other’s long term intentions (“strategic distrust”) has grown to a dangerous degree. The coauthors of [...] Continue Reading
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Ambassador Roy at AmCham Shanghai
Posted on 20 April 2012
Presentation focused on: Future of US China relationship. Comprehensive Measures of Intl Power vs Nations GDP. Physiological issues are bigger. Ambassador Roy also presented at the Shanghai Institute of Intl Studies before the []AmCham Shanghai](http://www.amcham-shanghai.org/) presentation. US may be distracted by domestic difficulties. It’s a psychological battle – perception – not reality Asians want engagement, [...] Continue Reading
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China Telecom “temp_box” Popup Ads 中国电信运营商投放广告
Posted on 04 January 2012
“China Telecom” high-speed Internet service in Shanghai is actually quite good, much better than anything else I’ve used in Mainland China during six years of extensive travel here, but I noticed ads started popping up on pages that I’m certain never had ads before. Moreover, the ads all look the same. I did a bit [...] Continue Reading
China (中国）, Economics （经济学）
Chinese Real-Estate Bubble Pops Day₀
Posted on 20 December 2011
I spent quite a bit of time writing about the Chinese Real-Estate bubble in 2009-2010. Back in 2005, the bubble (based on affordability ratios) was already evident, but post Gov’t stimulus boondoggle, the bubble turned into a super-bubble. Sometime in late 2010, I had written everything that I really had to say about it, and [...] Continue Reading
Shanghai （上海）
Apartment Hunting in Shanghai
Posted on 01 November 2011
Before you start looking for an apartment anywhere, the first step it to set your budget. I was also quite surprised to find that rents for newer (built after 2008) building are significantly higher than for buildings that are just slightly older. The reason, is due to the amount that the land lord paid when [...] Continue Reading
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Rittenberg’s People’s Daily Article – April 8th 1967
Posted on 29 August 2011
Sidney Rittenberg came to China in 1944, after 2 years studying Chinese at Stanford. He lived in China from 1944 – 1949 (5 years) and was then imprisoned for 6 years (1949 – 1955). During the Cultural Revolution, Twelve years after his release (total of 23 years in China) he managed to take control of [...] Continue Reading
China (中国）, Economics （经济学）
Chinese Income Gap – Problem?
Posted on 12 August 2011
If you spend any amount of time in any of China’s cities, it will not take long to notice that there are MANY WEALTHY PEOPLE and MORE POOR PEOPLE. China obviously has a massive population – so you get a chance to see more people in a short period of time that almost anywhere else. [...] Continue Reading
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The Economist for Free? Only in the Workers’ Paradise
Posted on 04 August 2011
Yesterday a friend of mine was telling me about a chinese website where the economist was translated each week by an army of Chinese volunteers. One of them subscribes to the magazine, and then the rest of them translate and put the translation online for free: 关于我们 ECO中文网创建于2006年，是《经济学人》爱好者的家园，凝聚了世界各地的华人力量翻译每期《经济学人》的精彩文章。《经济学人》最早于1843年9月由詹姆士·威尔逊创办，以独立和全球化的视角著称。创办的目的是“参与一场推动前进的智慧与阻碍我们进步的胆怯无知之间的较量”。 Translation: About Us: The “ECO” Chinese language [...] Continue Reading
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The Fed: Enron’s “Raptors” for Government Finance
Posted on 29 April 2011
The Federal Reserve Balance sheet is to the Federal Government what Fastow’s Loss Hiding “Raptors” were to Enron Corporation. The Federal Government has a debt of at least $14.7 Trillion. Additionally, the Federal Reserve has a debt of at least $2.5 Trillion. According to Dean Baker – Center for Economic and Policy Research: There is [...] Continue Reading
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