Tag Archive for 'Internet'

Do you like contests?

Do you like contests?  I’m betting most people would answer yes.  Even if I know I have no chance of winning or would prefer I not win (which would be wierd), my competitive spirit keeps me coming back for more.  In the realm of the internet and blogging I’ve seen lots of different contests: photo [...]

Help set a world record

Mozilla is releasing Firefox 3 at 10:00am PDT (Pacific) time today (June 17th).  Although it will technically be June 18th when the download is available for those of us here in Hong Kong, I don’t mind fudging the numbers if you won’t tell anyone.  But the point is that they are attempting to set a [...]

Not free… so not free

So what did you get your Mother for Mother’s Day?  Me?  I sent mine some flowers.  Which cost almost $200 US dollars.  Am I that generous with something that will wilt in a week or so?  No.  But the other charges on my credit card bill for unknown ’services’ cost almost cost that much.  Let [...]

The mobile web

I just attended a luncheon regarding the rising opportunities in the online mobile phone markets and it was pretty interesting.  I found out the the average youth user in China sends an average of 100 text messages a day.  That’s just sending!  Considering I’d never sent a text message in my life prior to coming [...]

Internet Flakes

The Internet connection here at the new office is absolute rubbish.  Calling it flakey would be a compliment.  We have to reboot the ISP provided border router roughly twice a day and in the meantime access kind of just dies off for a couple minutes at a time.  I actually wrote a post yesterday and [...]

Darkness Within

Hi all, as you know I’ve been doing more original writing on here lately and it seems I’ll be doing even more as we go along. I have quite a few scenarios written for my Day series that I’ve been writing so be on the lookout for those on no set schedule. However [...]