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Joe's Perspective - Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!

I'm an American who's been doing Computer Training and Desktop Support in Beijing since 1997.

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4/23/2008

Beijing Ikea

   Have been going to the Ikea here in Beijing quite a bit recently.  It's nice there, I like it.  The designs are excellent and while the furniture isn't the highest quality, they have lots of great little things for the apartment (like kitchen stuff!).  I also enjoy the cafeteria.
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3/27/2008

DVD collection for Sale!

   I've got my 4,000 disc DVD collection for sale here in Beijing.  I'm selling the collection as a whole, not piece-by-piece.  The emphasis of the collection is on excellent movies from any country but they're mostly American.  I also tried to get the widescreen version whenever possible and about 10% of the collection is in DVD-9s.
 
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   There's a list (a zipped Excel file) in my sharing folder if you care to look. 
   There are also some lists posted on my company's website.
   There's an HTML (web page) format list here:
 
   There's a zipped Excel file format list posted here:
3/26/2008

Microsoft Office Training in Beijing

   I've been having a lot of success doing Microsoft Office Training here in Beijing.  Excel, Word, Power Point, Access, Project, Outlook; these programs are simple to me and what with my training experience, it makes for excellent computer instruction classes.
   I write a lot of my own material for the students.  It's very time-consuming but worthwhile.
 
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1/17/2008

Joe for President!

Yes, it's true.  I'm announcing my candidacy today.  My objectives during my tenure will be:
  • a more European-style social welfare system
  • universal health care for all Americans
  • incentives to keep blue collar jobs in the USA
  • higher fuel taxes to pay for more public transportation
  • maximum wage limits
  • higher minimum wages
  • SUV tax
  • legalize soft drugs
9/29/2007

The Madness of King George

Paul Krugman had this brilliant opening to his column today in the "N. Y. Times"; Sometimes it seems that the only way to make sense of the Bush administration is to imagine that it’s a vast experiment concocted by mad political scientists who want to see what happens if a nation systematically ignores everything we’ve learned over the past few centuries about how to make a modern government work.

9/6/2007

My Living Epitaph

  • Never take any crap from anyone (unless given no alternative)
  • Never allow a corporation to take advantage
  • Try to enjoy life every day
  • Enjoy work but never work too hard
  • Travel, explore, experience
  • Meet interesting people
  • Help people through my work
  • Never cheat anyone for money
  • more later...
6/29/2007

Bush's Legacy

Editorial from the New York Times

Three Bad Rulings

Published: June 26, 2007

The Supreme Court hit the trifecta yesterday: Three cases involving the First Amendment. Three dismaying decisions by Chief Justice John Roberts’s new conservative majority.

Chief Justice Roberts and the four others in his ascendant bloc used the next-to-last decision day of this term to reopen the political system to a new flood of special-interest money, to weaken protection of student expression and to make it harder for citizens to challenge government violations of the separation of church and state. In the process, the reconfigured court extended its noxious habit of casting aside precedents without acknowledging it — insincere judicial modesty scored by Justice Antonin Scalia in a concurring opinion.

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