Overseas Chinese Web Guide

If you think a recession is bad, think twice. Stagflation is even worse! The last time a recession paid us a visit was when all the Silicon Valley dot.coms started imploding. Suddenly, I found it easier to commute to work and find parking at Cupertino Village. This time around? It’s [...]

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How can one comprehend 40,000 deaths? To really understand the breadth of the destruction, at least if you live in the United States, I turn to Flickr and YouTube. You can search for Sichuan earthquake or 四川地震 photos on Flickr. Although both searches terms are technically the same, the results differ. [...]

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I received a bill for $0.86 from the City of San Jose. Seriously, some city official should calculate their costs for mailing a bill and processing the payment and determine whether certain sums are better left uncollected. The city sent their bill as presorted first-class mail. So, their postage costs will run [...]

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I don’t know what to think about Microsoft. The Europeans believe that Microsoft is a bad actor that cannot be trusted. When a third-party application encounters compatibility problems with Microsoft software, the Europeans automatically attribute some nefarious monopolist motive to the Redmond behemoth.
But, what if Microsoft was just incompetent and not ill-mannered? [...]

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Yahoo! / Reuters: U.S. “Outraged” by Myanmar’s Response to Cyclone. The United Nations estimates 1.5 million people have been “severely affected” by the cyclone that swept through Myanmar and the United States expressed outrage on Thursday at the delays in allowing in aid.
Compare and contrast: Katrina Response Sparks Outrage.
Here’s another quote:
“It’s clear that the [...]

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