Jason Calicanis sent out an email recently that reinforced what I had already thought. Get out of facebook. Delete and see that useless molasses of nothingness get what it deserves.
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Apr19th2010
Going through some old scans from last year (bit of a back log). Here is one I took of Kevin Rose (digg.com founder) when I took him out for Chaunr after a regrettably too lately planned and informed tweetup that prevented the execution of some serious piss cutting out on the town. :-s
Apr19th2010
Google Using Site Speed Ranking & China Based Servers
Published by April 19th, 2010 in Business Development, China and Tech Horizon. 1 CommentIt is also no secret that the percentage of users in China that would love to use foreign web sites for most of their daily stuff – is quite low. Yes stuff is blocked. But the lion’s share of Chinese speaking people want Chinese sites with Chinese stuff of them. They are located inside China.
Apr7th2010
Cultural Understanding Course (Payment)
Published by April 7th, 2010 in Business Development and China. 1 CommentA former client of mine who was involved in a new venture recently quizzed me as to whether or not “We require clients to undertake the Cultural Understanding Course” if they do hosting and services with us?
Mar15th2010
The History of Chinese ICP and .CN Requirements
Published by March 15th, 2010 in Business Development, China and Tech Horizon. 7 CommentsThere has been a bit of a maelstrom recently regarding the use of .CN and ICP certificates all on top of the existing confusion.
So to try and set the record straight I am going to give a nice little walk through the pages of history and clearly state the facts of the matter from the inception until the present. And hopefully not only explain what the situation is, yet also how it came about and the anthropology of how we got to the situation that we have today.
Jan13th2010
Is GAPP About To Drop The Hammer On Netease and World Of Warcraft?
Published by January 13th, 2010 in Business Development and China. 0 CommentsJust like the current confusion over .cn, registrations, ICP – ICP by itself let alone in combination with others. Rules in China are one thing – but this isn’t the first time that two regulators don’t agree and have a pissing match. Or the rule creation and rule enforcement depts are thinking different things. DigiCha [...]
Dec16th2009
Leica M9 and the definition of vicarious
Published by December 16th, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsA mate from 1X.com on my insistence decided to do an un boxing of his M9 for me. It is the least he could do since we acted as counsellors and advisors on purchase and then mental distractions during the agonising wait that ensued. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZTxY2mojCs
Dec11th2009
The foreigner with email in China = Poor Communicator
Published by December 11th, 2009 in Business Development and China. 0 Comments“One of our contributors sent me through an urgent news story in the morning which I
was completely unaware of until the end of the day – when 600 emails
suddenly landed in my inbox.”
Nov11th2009
The China Iceberg
Published by November 11th, 2009 in Business Development, China and Tech Horizon. 0 CommentsFriend and collegue Jorn Knutsen has just launched his new blog about business in China. Written from 10 years of running factories, business councils and IT start ups in China.
Nov3rd2009
When you have a server (and lets hope it is a real one and not a Zhong Guan Cun job) you should enable thermal protection. Because A/C units do fail as do fans and other servers. Thermal protection will cause your systems to shut down gracefully and prevent damage to them and surround devices – like UPS batteries.
Oct19th2009
Got Servers? FaceBook has 30K!
Published by October 19th, 2009 in FOSS/GNU/Linux, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsGood to see that good old memcached is in use too! 
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/13/facebook-now-has-30000-servers/
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