Its been written several times in the press on the property boom in China and associated gobbling of raw materials of raw commodities. Every wonder why did all the steel went to? 1. Vienna Wood Community in Hefei City died…
A Project
What is a project team? According to the Project Management Institute, a project “it’s a temporary group activity designed to produce a unique product, service or result”. This is what happens how can things go really wrong. From here.
Colors of the web
What color or shade do you use for your website? A survey turns up very strange results. There is significant number of brands with various shades of blue. Purple seems to be barren with gray a close second. Note purple…
Microsoft Live outsources Blogging to WordPress.com
Browsing through a technology blog when I came across this. Microsoft Live is moving to WordPress.com blogging platform. This is a significant event as Microsoft typically, buy over, rebrand and reuse technology. Outsource to a GPL software is most unlike…
World’s scariest job?
Before you complain about the job or work environment, you might to see this video first.
Google Reader
Google Reader recommends this. Ok Bloglines is going to shutdown, so I ported everything over. Listed below are some interesting recommended feeds. 10 Unique, One-of-a-kind homes. link Seriously heavy bicycle loads link Cartoon Bentos link Bloglines is shutting down.
Bloglines is shutting down.
Just found when I checked into my Bloglines account over the weekend (yeah that was some weekend). They are shutting down!!! As you may have heard, we are sorry to share that Bloglines will officially shut down on October 1,…
Parkour
I came across this parkour video in a forum. Most impressive. Note the scenery repeats, as I think they are doing a circuit. What you don’t see is this. Countless number of scrapes and falls.
Army Oh.
Army Oh, a play on the Justin Bieber’s song Baby. can really understand this as I belong to this group. But then they never call me up.
World’s Strangest Man-Made Islands
Popular Mechanics has a photo slide show of man-made islands. Some of the islands are most interesting, some are made out reeds, PET botttles or even an oil drilling island. Since the ancient Aztecs geoengineered the shoreline of Tenochtitlan, their…