Why Americans Chase the Success
An American businessman took a vacation to a small coastal Mexican village on doctor’s orders. Unable to sleep after an urgent phone call from the office the first morning, he walked out to the pier to clear his head. A small boat with just one fisherman had docked, and inside the boat were several large yellowfin tuna. Read more
How To Get A Raise - The Bum’s Appraoch
I work in downtown area started around 10 years ago. During work I go out to take a walk couple of times a day. My regular route passes a convenient store where a bunch of beggars hang around in front of it.
For long time beggars asked “Do you have changes?” when they saw me. Most of the time I gave them pennies, nickels, and maybe dimes. But I didn’t give quarter. I saved quarters for parking. Read more
Microsoft Is a Little Bit Tender
It is interesting to see how hi tech brands and names were creatively translated into other languages. Microsoft called in China? Microsoft in Chinese is kindly referred as “a little bit tender”. Smart translation, isn’t it? Here’s how the name is converted to a great Chinese brand. Cutting the name “Microsoft” to two parts, “Micro” is translated to “Wei” which means “a little bit”, and “soft” to “Rien” meaning “tender”, that makes Microsoft a little bit tender in China. Kind of funny. Read more
The Dog and Tiger’s Evil Fight in China
In the Chinese IT community, a hot, funny topic is about the fight between the dog and tiger for China’s territory. There is big argument about who is going to win the search engine market. Here the tiger is Yahoo, translated into Chinese by pronunciation as “elegant tiger”, and the dog is Google which means “ancient dog” or “dead dog” in Chinese pronunciation. Read more
Zoo Keepers: How Many Animals Do You Keep?
In our office, programmers and system guys often joke about software, tools, and vendors named after animals. A fun game is to count how many animals we keep in our virtual zoo, - our PC. We found birds, cats, frogs, snakes, and more, very amazing! Read more
Computers were People, Managers are Not
“What do you do for living?”
“I am a computer for the First National Bank.” Read more
IT is Not It
A web translation firm wanted to sell translation service to me, so they sent me a page of my web site ITCareerSuccess.com that was translated to Chinese. However, they translated “IT Career Success” to “Its Career Success”. How ridiculous, IT is not It! Read more
A Test For Career Professionals
The following short quiz consists of four questions and will tell you whether you are qualified to be a professional. The questions are NOT difficult. Read more
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