Mao Zedong’s famous dictum says that “the guerrilla lives amongst the people like a fish lives in water”. Without the people, the guerrilla cannot live.
To survive, a large-scale guerrilla movement, or insurgency, must have a message, a purpose, that resonates to at least some degree with the feelings and beliefs of the population in which [...]
Over the past four years or so, I’ve written a number of posts on China’s role as a destination and a source of cultural influence. China hasn’t just been drawing the MNCs, the investors, the outsourcers, and the rest of the big battalions of globalization. It’s also been drawing the artists, the freelancers, the global [...]
Just a few photos, taken to test my new Nokia N73; I decided that what I wanted was an affordable phone that can take good quality pictures, and the N73 seemed to fit the bill.
The very first, taken at the counter where I bought the N73. Note the prices of the local-brand phones; even [...]
The Times: Ditching the office is the most modern way to operate these days, it seems.
Paul Graham: In an artificial world, only extremists live naturally.
When I was still at school, taking my O-levels, I was really keen on science fiction. For many years, I had been reading the likes of Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman, Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov… plus, of course, Arthur C. Clarke, who was born just across the Bristol Channel (more correctly, Y Môr Hafren) from me. [...]
Why are some wrapped, and others not?
Beijing and Singapore are both full of construction sites.
This set of signs is pretty typical of those I’ve seen in various parts of Beijing. I like the ‘wear your hard hat’ icon; it seems to seek to inspire, to persuade workers that they do really want to wear a helmet, as opposed to the [...]
Even though I can, obviously, get access to this blog from China, it’s been slooooooooow - at times, it can take up to ten minutes for a page to load. This discourages me from blogging - and if I notice typos after I’ve posted, it’s a real pain to try and fix them.
Happily, this is [...]
I almost used the title “Feels like June… 29th 1914″.
Kaiser Kuo over at Ogilvy Digital China Watch wonders if he is witnessing “the beginning of the Great Unravelling“, and I know exactly what he means.
Carlyle Capital collapsing… Bear Sterns going under… and no-one knows how much further or how much worse it will [...]
According to Stephanie Martin, the new worldwide lead for IBM Developer Relations, the number of young new IT developers is falling fast in the US, but rising fast in East Asia.
“In China what we’re seeing is interest in core technologies in the open standards area,” Martin said. “We’re seeing the most interest in learning more [...]
