Dave Sabol

Language, Introductions and Business Cards

The prevailing language is Cantonese followed closely by English. Many locals also understand and use Putonghua. Business cards are essential. Use both hands when presenting cards and be sure the writing faces the person to whom you are presenting your card. It is polite to receive the card with both hands [...]

Most Chinese in Hong Kong speak Cantonese. While technically a dialect, it is really quite a different spoken language than Mandarin, the official language spoken in Beijing. Even the architecture and scenery vary — the Victorian waterfront gives way to ancient Chinese temples and traditions.
A common phrase suggests that the world is “getting smaller”. Although [...]

In the first part of this series, I explained that I am again travelling for business. This time I am heading to Hong Kong. I then provided some basic historical and statistical information about Hong Kong. In this entry, I continue to share information that I came across during my research on the Government, Domestic [...]

Hong Kong
Official Name:
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Location / Map:
Latitude: 22°16′42.16″ N (Central HK)
Longitutde: 114°11′01.72″ E (Central HK)
Elevation: 43m (Central HK)

Weather / Climate
Tropical monsoon. Hong Kong has a subtropical climate with distinct seasons. Typhoon season is May to November. When a typhoon is approaching, warnings are broadcast on TV and radio, and signals indicate the storm’s [...]

2007 looks like it is off to a blazing start for me. It’s only the first month of the year and I already have at least four major trips on my radar screen. Two of them look like they are definite, two look pretty certain but not guaranteed and more are emerging with every passing [...]

After a busy weekend of doing holiday related stuff including taking my son on a train ride with Santa on Saturday and having a special visit from Santa at our house on Sunday, I had a ton of great pictures to get in order.
This prompted me to take a good look at my family [...]

As it tries to usher in a new era in computing, Google is promoting its software applications in kindergarten through high school classrooms, where kids who have grown up with the Web are more likely to experiment with different technology.
CNN.com

It looks like the education space could be the first, real place where Linux could grab beachhead in the desktop PC market.
The Chart

What follows is a list of thirty pieces of software that are the cream of the crop of open source software for Windows. Not only is every piece of it free, almost all of them directly replace expensive software packages.
The Simple Dollar

One can discuss, whether web-generators are useful or not. On the one hand, they don’t challenge our creativity, but on the other hand they make our life easier and save our precious time. However, it doesn’t matter really. What matters is that we use them if we have to solve some problem quickly and efficiently. [...]