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Chinese Government Leading the Fight Against Spammers? »

A recent move by Google to pull its business out of China made top headlines around the world. As Google controls nearly two-thirds of the world’s search results, it is definitely a big story when it makes a fundamental business decision to up and leave potentially the largest economy in the next 50 years to [...]

Photos of 2010 Winter Olympic Teams »

I attended the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremonies last evening and it was definitely a chance of a life time experience. Here are photos of all, or rather, most of the teams that are participating in the 2010 Winter Olympics. I may have missed photographing a few teams during the march-in as I was [...]

Port Moody Has Caught the 2010 Olympic Fever »

To my surprise (& delight), the City of Port Moody is participating in the “Spirti of BC”. To celebrate counting down the next year until Vancouver 2010 Games, the first 365 people visiting Port Moody’s Recreation Complex today get in free. I enjoyed my free cardio workout today. Not too bad!
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PR Newswire Waive Fees for Earthquake Relief »

In a world where profitability and return-on-investment often direct business decisions, it was nice to receive an email today from PR Newswire announcing that they will waive all China earthquake relief effort news fees. PR Newswire is showing how a for-profit organization can do its part and try to help the more than 10,000 people [...]

The New 7 Wonders of the World Announced on 07.07.07 »

On July 7, 2007 (07.07.07), the new 7 Wonders of the World were announced in Lisbon, Portugal. Here are the winners.

Chichén Itzá, Mexico

Christ Redeemer, Brazil

The Great Wall, China

Machu Picchu, Peru

Petra, Jordan

Roman Colloseum, Italy

The Taj Mahal, India

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