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 [...]

Day 14

January 19, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Day 14 – Tuesday – Some interesting China article links to kick things off:

Daring blogger tests the limits
Article with some interesting graphs on Chinese military spending
Article on Google
Power rationing in China
Why America and China Will Clash
Avatar banned in China
chinaSMACK – this is an awesome news aggregation site sent to me by Dave Learn – a [...]

Days 6-13 – Shanghai Hooters, Mao’s Revenge, and rotten cell phone companies

January 18, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Day 6 – Woke to steady rain after a fitful sleep.  The Chinese believe in sleeping on hard beds, as it is supposed to be good for you.  And when I say hard, I mean sheet of plywood hard.  And how having your hips so sore you can barely get out of the bed in [...]

80% of success is just showing up

October 8, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment 

A famous quote from Woody Allen, and 100% true.
When Mike Bellamy started PassageMaker, he was working out of his living room.  He had no work force, no infrastructure, just his own willingness to work and work and work until the job was done.  He showed up, plain and simple.
PassageMaker made plenty of mistakes in those [...]

No, it’s a want to issue

October 3, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Cogitating on the 60th anniversary of the PRC, one cannot fail to consider the current state of the USA, and as a microcosm, our domestic automotive industry.
Yesterday, it was announced the deal with Penske to buy Saturn fell through, and so dies another GM marque.  In this case, I have a personal interest, as I [...]

Why I love the circus

September 20, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment 

One of my favorite things to do is take my family to the circus.  I like them all, but my favorite is Cole Brothers under the big top, the way a circus should be.
I love circuses because you can’t fake it.  Everything is live, and it all depends on the elegant combination of individual skill [...]