We have created an entire generation (or two) of managers who are very savvy with cost accounting models. They know exactly how “costs” and “profits” are calculated, and they know exactly what inputs to manipulate in order to make the numbers as good as possible.
They know, for example, how “inventory turns” are calculated, that “average [...]
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
As you may have noticed, there is a new look. This is the result of finally getting around to upgrading Wordpress, and the unintended consequence that the new version “broke” the theme I was using. So I finally found another theme (which is easier than rolling my own or dissecting someone else’s code to figure [...]
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Monday, November 12, 2007
In a medium as dynamic as the world-wide-web, the line between syndication / rebroadcast and cut-and-paste of someone else’s content to add value to your own site is a slippery one.
In any other medium, whether it be hard-copy publishing, sound or video content (whether recorded or broadcast), or research, the concept of reproducing someone [...]
Saturday, November 3, 2007
I hopped over the water this morning from Beijing to Nagoya. More about that later. But I can say it is just a bit of sticker shock to travel from one of the least expensive places to one of the most expensive places in the span of 2 1/2 hours. Ah, the miracle of jet [...]
Thursday, November 1, 2007
I just had the host upgrade my version of Wordpress, and you can probably see the results are not 100%.
I’m working on it.
If you see any problems other than the error message at the top of each post, please let me know.
Update 9:30 pm China Standard Time: I have reverted the upgrade. [...]
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
There is a Wal*Mart here in Beijing. I haven’t been in it.
I wonder what they sell in at a Wal*Mart in China…
I encountered a new level of sophistication in comment spam engines today. This one actually hosts a “blog” of its own. The engine parses quotes from other blogs, posts them as comments in those blogs and links back to itself. On its host site, it looks like a “blog” but, in reality, it is nothing [...]
Sunday, September 16, 2007
I suppose it is some kind of rite of passage for a blog when the spam-bots finally find it and start commenting. I had my first three today in the moderation queue.
At the end of the last post I promised to write more when I was over the jet-lag of returning from three weeks in China. Well.. I didn’t, and how I am back over here.
While I was in the USA I took some time off, or at least I did during my “day job.” Since [...]