Archive for December, 2004

A Ticket for Old Paper

Wednesday, December 8th, 2004

More than a week ago I participated in the Shanghai Travel
Mart. The first two days were the B to B days. Business
cards changed hands, promises were made, intentions expressed and
photo’s of the competition taken. The last two days were open to the
public. There were not many persons who wanted to buy an entrance
ticket but […]

Every 2 minutes, 9 suicide attempts

Tuesday, December 7th, 2004

The China Daily has an article about the suicide numbers in
China. Every 2 minutes, 9 persons try to take to their live. 8
succeed. That means that according to these statistics a total of
2.120.400 Chinese kill themselves yearly. The World Health Organization
quotes the number of 873,000 people worldwide.
I never was good in mathematics so it could […]

Auction of Clients

Friday, December 3rd, 2004

Nothing about China nor Shanghai, just something funny if you think about it. I just ran into a thread about a guy selling some leftovers (hosting clients) from the days he had a hosting company. He put them up for auction on Ebay and he describes them as clients who “will likely stick for long […]

Google News, Adsense and Online Biz in China

Friday, December 3rd, 2004

A lot has been written about the apparent blocking of google news. The China Herald pointed out that it might be that:
“The internet filters have caused a damaging slowdown on the internet traffic in general and perhaps by closing some of the generators of potentially sensitive traffic that bottleneck is temporarily ’solved’.”
His assumption might be […]

It’s been some days.

Friday, December 3rd, 2004

Starting a blog is one thing, moving it up one level so it has it’s own domain name and transferring the few articles already written is another. Consequently I had some issues getting everything online, partly because I am a bit illiterate regarding this great piece of software that is the engine of my […]

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