Category Archives: work


China, Day 4

Jesus fucking christ, I’m in a completely country where 99% of the population doesn’t speak my language, you can’t find a goddamn cup of coffee, and I’m completely dependant on strangers to get something as simple as a micro-USB cable or CF reader to get the pictures off my camera.
None of that is bothering me […]

China, Day 3

Day 3 rapidly draws to a close. Time to go get some dinner. Lunch was some great dim sum (and for about $6 for the 3 of us to eat). I could get used to that. Though, I had a hard time keeping the cow intestine down. Less of […]

China, Day 2

Food good. And interesting.
Alcohol makes a fabulous cure for jet lag.
I need to learn spoken Chinese, real fast. Any suggestions for resources on basic grammar and vocabulary would be awesome.

two flights,…

three boarding passes, two bus rides, three passport stamps, two taxi rides, a shower, a flooded bathroom, a shave and one thoroughly authentically taiwanese (hah! seriously) lunch later, I have discovered that the two people I have come here to train do not yet speak sufficient english for me to explain the software development […]

travel

It’s not quite one night in Bangkok, but I’ll be spending two weeks in Shenzhen, China in March.

blogging about a blog about blogging

This blog entry about “how do you blog about work” got me thinking.
If your boss caught you bitching about your job in a bar to a friend, would he care (assuming you weren’t telling him all about your company’s plan to offer a sheep raping service next month, that is, or something else fairly confidential).
If […]