Quiet for a bit...

while I get settled at Gracenote...

Herding Cats: Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

Herding Cats: Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

Nothing judgemental there... :-) But some important key info on risk management in projects.

Fiddling with Roxio Photo Show

It would be nice if the embedding actually worked. :-(

Orville Schell on China

Very interesting piece in New York Review of Books (online, of course) by Orville Schell, reviewing the movie Dark Matter, about a Chinese PhD student in the US who, perceiving that his advisors have caused his humiliation and loss of face, kills them and himself.

It's a very perceptive historical review of the "100 years of humiliation" that Chinese feel (and celebrate, if that's the right word) that goes a long way to explain the actions and reactions of the government and Chinese citizens in response to things like the torch protests.

Check it out:
China: Humiliation & the Olympics.

Later...

So sad. Last trip to Shanghai, for a while at least. Check out the pics:

Blue Sky Day, Shanghai

OK, I should've posted this when I got here. When we got in the van to head to the hotel, what to my wondering eyes did appear, but a bunch of puffy clouds and blue sky! All the rain must have had some positive impact, I guess.

China, the Olympics and the Visa Mystery

Fascinating and somewhat provocative piece here with a really quite compelling analysis of the Chinese visa restrictions. Some key points:

* Beijing is willing to sacrifice stability to retain power (and there are plenty of historical examples of the same thing)
* China is due for an economic crisis due to the underlying nature of the growth

Fascinating reading. Stratfor