Beyond the Rhetoric

I’ll admit it, I don’t have all of my holiday shopping done. There were a few holiday gift ideas that popped in my head while cruising around in Tokyo and Hong Kong, but not enough to tick off everyone on my list this year. Yes, I’ll be a part of the insane buying blitz this [...]

 We were teased at Transformers. Later on, we found out that Cloverfield is more than codename. And now the marketing machine is in full churn, because JJ Abrams and the rest of team behind Cloverfield have geared up a whole advertising campaign for the monster movie set for release on 01-18-08 (that’s January 18, 2008, [...]

There are many myths about freelance writing and one of the biggest ones is that you cannot earn a livable income doing it. That’s simply untrue. If you’re willing to work hard and put in the hours, you can totally make a living as a freelance writer. In fact, according to David Drake and his [...]

Remember how I said the best time to write a blog post is after dinner? Well, I haven’t really been doing that lately, nor have I been making extensive use of the timestamp feature. Instead, the majority of my recent posts are done via live blogging, simply because I’m pooped by the end of the [...]

The blogosphere has been pretty good to me this year. I’ve made a lot of new friends, both online and offline, and for that I am eternally grateful. If it wasn’t for this blog and the networking that resulted, I would have never met great people like Ed Lau and Stephen Fung. I also wouldn’t [...]