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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Stupid ads solving non-existent problems and other bad sales pitches
November 4, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment
I’ve been cogitating recently on some of the marketing campaigns out there that seem almost designed to not sell the product or otherwise turn off customers. What the **** were they thinking?
The creepy plastic faced Burger King ad campaign has won awards in the ad industry, but resulted in a declining market share for the client. I [...]
They levelled the playing field
October 21, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment
There has been lots of ink lately about Mao the “political philosopher”. I won’t get into that other than to say that if any one person deserves credit for China’s economic transformation over the last 30 years, it is Deng Xiao Ping, not Mao.
It was either Mr. China or China Road (both wonderful books) that [...]
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. 
