Comments for American Professor and King of Nothing http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress Digital Chinese Take Out for the Expat's Soul Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:58:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Things to do in China when you are dying…. by Aleksander Wyka http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/2007/07/28/things-to-do-in-china-when-you-are-dying-2/comment-page-1/#comment-11154 Aleksander Wyka Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:58:54 +0000 http://china-business-consultant.com/2007/07/28/things-to-do-in-china-when-you-are-dying-2/#comment-11154 I got to your post through a friend that has borrowed the Don Quixote picture for her own blog ... I am impressed by its content, I'll have to re-read it again so my brain that is still working slowly after a small nap can capture its whole semantic content. Well, in our western civilization we don't believe in reincarnation which makes the whole process of dying so much more painful and more difficult to accept as we will not reborn again. It is our family joke to say that my mother who is now 95 is like "Lenin" - "She is always alive", even if she wants to get out from this life that she find boring by now. We all love her very much and are happy to have her around but I would have accept her death as it something inevitable. I would have been a shock but we would have accept it, however it would have been like passing another post on our way to Hades. It could be even that she lives longer that my sister that fights with a health problem for years, well it is written somewhere or it is just a simple accident that we have to leave the LIFE even if we could still contribute some value to the society and to generate heaps of feeling from those that love us. Well, I came here with a question that I am asking without knowledge if you are still here: "Can I use this Don Quixote" picture on my web site (a commercial web site that will show my consulting services in ICT ?. The picture is being used just to highlight the fact that lots of people are taking unnecessary risks in project management and are due to fail given their lack of knowledge of problem domain and their lack of skills in risk mediation, that is where we can help them so they don't become a modern Don Quixote that has left for an uncertain battle with windmills, not knowing its enemy and if he can win the battle. I got to your post through a friend that has borrowed the Don Quixote picture for her own blog … I am impressed by its content, I’ll have to re-read it again so my brain that is still working slowly after a small nap can capture its whole semantic content. Well, in our western civilization we don’t believe in reincarnation which makes the whole process of dying so much more painful and more difficult to accept as we will not reborn again.
It is our family joke to say that my mother who is now 95 is like “Lenin” – “She is always alive”, even if she wants to get out from this life that she find boring by now. We all love her very much and are happy to have her around but I would have accept her death as it something inevitable. I would have been a shock but we would have accept it, however it would have been like passing another post on our way to Hades. It could be even that she lives longer that my sister that fights with a health problem for years, well it is written somewhere or it is just a simple accident that we have to leave the LIFE even if we could still contribute some value to the society and to generate heaps of feeling from those that love us.

Well, I came here with a question that I am asking without knowledge if you are still here: “Can I use this Don Quixote” picture on my web site (a commercial web site that will show my consulting services in ICT ?.

The picture is being used just to highlight the fact that lots of people are taking unnecessary risks in project management and are due to fail given their lack of knowledge of problem domain and their lack of skills in risk mediation, that is where we can help them so they don’t become a modern Don Quixote that has left for an uncertain battle with windmills, not knowing its enemy and if he can win the battle.

]]> Comment on Lazy Panda: Lessons in Cultural Localization by Frederick http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/2011/04/10/americans-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-10459 Frederick Sat, 07 May 2011 17:36:15 +0000 http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/?p=1206#comment-10459 I've enjoyed your blogging over the years. Godspeed. I’ve enjoyed your blogging over the years. Godspeed.

]]> Comment on Gaining Twitter Influence! by Lonnie Hodge http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/2011/03/31/gaining-twitter-influence/comment-page-1/#comment-10030 Lonnie Hodge Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:38:34 +0000 http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/?p=1171#comment-10030 Nice to have you in the mix... Thanks... Nice to have you in the mix…
Thanks…

]]> Comment on Gaining Twitter Influence! by @hamsterwatch http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/2011/03/31/gaining-twitter-influence/comment-page-1/#comment-10029 @hamsterwatch Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:39:09 +0000 http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/?p=1171#comment-10029 I guess this is a good thing for me? This twitter account & related site has very specific content (updates & commentary about the 24/7 live feeds that the Big Brother summer reality show is based on), I do a minimum of interaction and thus follow relatively few, since I truly "follow" them. I don't know how any of that applies as far as "influence" but for what it's worth, my personal account @neonne's follower count has stalled just short of 1,000 and only attracts spammers, even though I'm far more conversational there and I tweet a wide variety of topics.. go figure. Oh, and I have followed you back now :) I guess this is a good thing for me? This twitter account & related site has very specific content (updates & commentary about the 24/7 live feeds that the Big Brother summer reality show is based on), I do a minimum of interaction and thus follow relatively few, since I truly “follow” them. I don’t know how any of that applies as far as “influence” but for what it’s worth, my personal account @neonne’s follower count has stalled just short of 1,000 and only attracts spammers, even though I’m far more conversational there and I tweet a wide variety of topics.. go figure. Oh, and I have followed you back now :)

]]> Comment on Gaining Twitter Influence! by admin http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/2011/03/31/gaining-twitter-influence/comment-page-1/#comment-9992 admin Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:34:01 +0000 http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/?p=1171#comment-9992 One day this will have real utility....Not yet... I was talking to an ad exec in HK about ways to make this meaningful... It is going to take a hell of an algorithm.... One day this will have real utility….Not yet…
I was talking to an ad exec in HK about ways to make this meaningful…
It is going to take a hell of an algorithm….

]]> Comment on Gaining Twitter Influence! by ChinaMatt http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/2011/03/31/gaining-twitter-influence/comment-page-1/#comment-9983 ChinaMatt Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:19:32 +0000 http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/?p=1171#comment-9983 Somehow my personal klout score is lower than the corporate account I run. Guess that's a good thing since I get paid for that account. Somehow my personal klout score is lower than the corporate account I run. Guess that’s a good thing since I get paid for that account.

]]> Comment on Spread Hope by Doug http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/2011/03/17/spread-hope/comment-page-1/#comment-9856 Doug Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:08:54 +0000 http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/?p=1124#comment-9856 Thanks for sharing Lonnie...we all need to #SpreadHope Thanks for sharing Lonnie…we all need to #SpreadHope

]]> Comment on Spread Hope by J.J.Brown http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/2011/03/17/spread-hope/comment-page-1/#comment-9816 J.J.Brown Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:42:33 +0000 http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/?p=1124#comment-9816 Thanks for this moving commentary, I often wonder what's happening on down the path after all the stories like a flash flood are gone and we've collectively moved on away from them. I'm always looking for positive news, and appreciate your #SpreadHope. Thanks for this moving commentary, I often wonder what’s happening on down the path after all the stories like a flash flood are gone and we’ve collectively moved on away from them. I’m always looking for positive news, and appreciate your #SpreadHope.

]]> Comment on 海归，海带，海鸥 Part I by admin http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/2011/03/09/%e6%b5%b7%e5%bd%92%ef%bc%8c%e6%b5%b7%e5%b8%a6%ef%bc%8c%e6%b5%b7%e9%b8%a5-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-9812 admin Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:14:47 +0000 http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/?p=1115#comment-9812 Thank you... Thank you…

]]> Comment on 海归，海带，海鸥 Part I by academicoach http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/2011/03/09/%e6%b5%b7%e5%bd%92%ef%bc%8c%e6%b5%b7%e5%b8%a6%ef%bc%8c%e6%b5%b7%e9%b8%a5-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-9743 academicoach Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:23:16 +0000 http://onemanbandwidth.com/wordpress/?p=1115#comment-9743 A great article and one I am sharing with parents and students I have worked with (and will work with) in China. I've worked with Chinese students and families over Skype in the past, and their initial reaction to my feedback/advice is one of total bewilderment. They expect me to say that Harvard, Princeton, Berkeley, etc. are the only schools on the planet, and if their student doesn't gain admissions to one of these select schools (as a pre-med major), he or she is a failure. I hope your message travels the globe, or more immediately, around China. Good luck with your efforts. A great article and one I am sharing with parents and students I have worked with (and will work with) in China. I’ve worked with Chinese students and families over Skype in the past, and their initial reaction to my feedback/advice is one of total bewilderment. They expect me to say that Harvard, Princeton, Berkeley, etc. are the only schools on the planet, and if their student doesn’t gain admissions to one of these select schools (as a pre-med major), he or she is a failure. I hope your message travels the globe, or more immediately, around China. Good luck with your efforts.

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