Hong Kong - daoist temple

Were about to have vegetarian breakfast.

By chance....

the book that I'm reading just had the characters be in Hong Kong - that's where I'm going right now!

Netbooks a surprise?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/16/noughties_review/page7.html

My turn to be surprised. Once when working for IBM (no it wasn't a good personal fit)  I remember being at Almaden talking to some there. I was seeing clearly that laptops was the future. I couldn't get out of my mind that they were so very similar to the once so common and cheap home computer. However the price was all to high. There wasn't, in my mind any good reason for that. They should be cheaper since its all integrated!

The Macs were all integrated. But even more expensive. Apple must have made a lot of profit on their monopoly platform over the years.

Now netbooks are here and are fully capable PC's, and they are suddenly cheap. It used to be that smaller was more expensive. But that's probably because exec people were willing to pay for it.

Now its the future. Only problem for me: it makes it difficult to easy rationalize paying much for the smaller capable smartphones.

Who knows maybe they're next in line?

How much cheese do you get if...

...you half a half slice of cheese?

It seems to me that that a such a slice is bigger than a quarter slice :-D

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Ti quan yin

Tea time on my balcony. Just heard another good friend is going to be in Hong Kong when I'm there. Joy!

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Melgbourne river area

I have to say that I'm impressed by how Australia is revitalizing city areas and making them livable and walkable w much public spaces. I didn't realize it untill towards the end that San Fran is pretty bad in this aspect. You're supposed to have a car and drive. Somewhere. Even SoMa area is getting more lively, but where is the green in the city? There is little feel of space.

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Luna park melbourne

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"more bang for their buck" ...

...the police said about brothel ad in police mag.

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Its eve in Sydney and 36C - I enjoy it

I wonder how the Japanese Puppy Cakes are doing today...

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Your mama didn't cook this...

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At korean bbq

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Cheap labor w extra profit for Australia

The Australians have an interesting scheme that allows foreigners to stay maybe 8 months on a holiday work visa, this surely fills a lot of temp jobs.

Then for people who legally cannot immigrate they can become "students": As long as they're "studying" they can work fulltime. Since the "studying" costs a lot in fees to the colleges and universities this is like a high tax. Its one of the major "exports" for Australia. That and coal it'd seem. The country is full of natural resources easy to "harvest".

I'm not sure if I'm critical of the system. But I see a lot of people working really hard (6-7 days a week) in order to pay so that they won't have to leave.

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So this guy is walking his goats in Hyde park!

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Monk picture

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Red sky in Sydney

This night a big dust cloud moved in over Sydney. The red picture was pretty amazing. It was taken at 5 in the morning. The other one from our office towards Sydney CBD. Apparently this has not happened for 20 years or so. Lots of people are using masks. Probably left over from the flue.

Now I'm waiting in a bus. We're going to an offsite in Hunters Valley for a few days.

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Here is a photo of this blog!

And my finger pointing to the url.

I got this idea when a finance guy sent out an email to his clients about their newly revamped website. In the email there was no address but instead an attachmment with a copy of the weppage and url...

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Art of taking a dump

Saw this in a loo at one of my cafes.

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Found a new way to loose weight....

...just don't eat this!

Simple, heh?

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I guess it was time...

To get rid of that wallet. Let's see if I can do with a small metal business card case instead kudos my brother.

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Stieg Larsson: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

Ok. My second theory just confirmed right. Is this book all predictable?

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