Posts from ‘September, 2008’

The global financial networks of the new economy are inherently unstable. They produce random patterns of informational turbulence that may destabilize any company, as well as entire countries or regions, regardless of their economic performances.
At the existential human level, the most alarming feature of the new economy may be that it is shaped in [...]

Ever flipped back and forth, and back and forth, through pages and pages of printed material and wished there was a Ctrl+F?

Composite of 400mm, ISO 200, f/5.6, 1/8s + ditto, 1/200s

Nikon D200 + Nikon Fieldscope ED78 (= 1000mm) + attachment

From the lack of a true social theory comes the debilitating failure of the social sciences to communicate with the natural sciences and even with one another… the disciplines of both need to be defined by the scales of time and space they individually encompass and not just by subject matter as in past practice, [...]

I don’t suppose anyone would take to blogging about the affairs of tooth-brushing. But this I simply have to mention. It’s about my toothpaste… my new tube of toothpaste. Nothing else in my bathroom intrigues me more than what’s on its label, and I can stare at the tube every morning and every night and [...]

It’s a silly Chinese tradition and cultural notion that if shark’s fin soup doesn’t make an appearance on some fancy gala dinner menu, it’s a cheap show. The response to my objections, coming from my mom though it may be (perhaps that is precisely the cause), makes me sick. My sis and I will keep [...]

I’m a little uncertain about this one, although it’s a refreshing change (and I keep seeing blogs with my old theme popping up everywhere). The background certainly needs some spicing up.

Among all the websites I manage, my own blog’s the most outdated. Just never really did see a need to upgrade it to the latest WP version but since I’m presently in a webmonkeying mode, might as well.
So hang tight. Things may just go poof! any moment now.