Oct 22 2007
Is Africa being exploited? Maybe. Will it benefit from this exploitation? Maybe. It depends on the Africans. China was being exploited a century ago. How much that experience has been fueling the current drive, perhaps no one could know for sure, but I suspect it did, A lot. I always believe that the geography determines the major [...]
Oct 22 2007
Few of my successful if not surprising finds on the net
I’m spending the better part of the day scanning a book that was lent to me by Roland, and agonizing over the fact that I haven’t found a used Chinese book store online. Is there a valid market exist?? Few years ago, Roland stopped by one day [...]
Oct 22 2007
The 1999 version starring Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore. Have you ever seen Mr. Fiennes laugh? In this movie, I think I saw him laugh once, revealing a mouthful of gray teeth which remind me of sharks. No, not that his teeth are serrated or warped, but the over all impression. Fiennes is one of my favored [...]