Stand Up While You Read This! More validation that the TrekDesk is the right product at the right time.
March 9, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment
Here’s a great article from the NYT by Olivia Judson about the health benefits of staying active while working. I am a huge believer in this concept, and I built my own treadmill desk some years ago with the help of my brother-in-law. I was thinking about taking the idea to market when PassageMaker was [...]
This is a scream…
March 5, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment
And I thought cottage industries were moms sitting around the kitchen table making buttons or painting toy soldiers…I’m speechless.
Have a great weekend.
Child labor
March 2, 2010 by whit · 5 Comments
I read with interest the recent articles (couple of them here and here) about Apple’s announcement that some of their suppliers had used child labor in the past.
What I found most interesting was the “child” part – when I was 15 I would have slugged anyone who called me a child. During the summer of [...]
Arrogant Americans need not apply, the decline (?) of the West and what if the Chinese stop buying US paper?
February 24, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment
“The enemy always has problems of his own of which you are unaware.” – George C. Marshall
Not that China is necessarily our enemy, but they are certainly a competitor, and I don’t normally borrow money from my competitors. Some interesting articles covering all sides of the USA declining(?) debate and other silliness.
America On The [...]
I can’t decide if this is brilliant diplomacy or not…
February 23, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment
Either the White House is trying to placate Beijing after the dust-ups over Taiwan and Copenhagen, or this is just an unfortunate photo. You decide, but I am guessing it is a subtle hat tip to Beijing.
Day 37 – Home
February 19, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment
My Blackberry Storm 2 from Verizon Wireless has been progressively crapping out on this trip. It is not a good device, and the longer I have it, the less impressed I am. In addition to the outrageous charges to receive calls – I practically had to hang up on a few clients to get them [...]
Days 32-36 – Wrapping it up
February 18, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment
Day 32 – After recovering from the party the night before, Adam Supernant and I pick up a couple of our clients for a shopping outing to Dongmen. It is actually quite brisk – south China this time of year can go from the 80s to the 50s in one day – and neither of [...]
Day 31 – 恭喜发财 – PassageMaker’s Chinese New Year party!
February 15, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment
恭喜发财, gōng xǐ fā cái, wishing you a prosperous new year!
More articles and weird stuff:
Toxic Linfen – regardless of Climategate, there is still room for commonsense pollution controls in developing nations
Think You Know China? Eight Things Foreigners Get Wrong
Interesting talk on Vested Outsourcing – not sure if I care for the new buzz word, but [...]
Days 27-30 – Plenty of hard work and plenty of visitors
February 15, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment
I’ve already returned to the States a few days ago, but the last couple weeks in China were so hectic, I am filing these posts late. Days 31-37 to come shortly.
Articles, articles, articles…
Chinese diplomat: Ties with US deteriorated recently – no, really?
More from Reuters
This is just wrong – Chinese girl, 9, becomes one of world’s [...]
Days 15-26 – Pollution, street food, deadlines, Hong Kong and crossing the road in China
February 5, 2010 by whit · 2 Comments
Our founder, Mike Bellamy, who evidently doesn’t have enough WORK TO DO posted the Rick Roll the other day under my name. That was his hint that I should blog more often, so here goes. Sorry for the Rick Roll. Sorry for the absence. And sorry in advance for the length of this post.
More interesting [...]
I was fed up with middlemen & poorly run factories distorting pricing, failing to control quality and allowing intellectual property (IP) to be knocked off, so I decided to do something about it. 
