Jayson Werth steals 4 bases

Not much time to watch baseball or any sports game since child born...(sigh)

Funny YouTube - Job Hunting in China

I think it's a commercial of job hunting site, but it's funny anyway.

Yoshi to the Zoo

DSC00878, originally uploaded by rwcutter.

Yesterday was a cloudy and cool Sunday, and we decided to took Yoshi to Taipei Zoo. We wanted to show him what real animals look like, otherwise he might think that they are all painted in colors as in cartoons and puzzle blocks. It was interesting to see what he connects those animals he saw with the pictures at home. The most interesting part was when he sang out loud trying to attract elephants and hippos to come forward. That was the loudest voice I've ever heard from him except for crying. :)

Damage

Last Friday a sales was fired. She was trying her best but the company did not recognize her hard-work. Today I was called in to the CEO's office. Obviously the sales said something honest on her last day, which was not very pleasing to the bosses. My boss told me that he wants to UNDO what happened in the last three months, and to begin damage control. The damage refers to the impact on the command system in the sales team that is collapsing due to different directions inside. I was blamed for spreading negative opinions and tense relationship with sales. It can't be undone, but seems I need my damage control plan now.

DEMO09 Winners Announced

DEMO 2009 is finished. Perhaps influenced by the economy tsunami, only 39 companies attended this event. This is almost 50% loss compares to previous records (I think it must be a dilemma for Chris Shipley to find a balance between companies that are willing to pay and those that really worth it.)

Among them, there are 7 DEMOgod winners and 1 People's Choice. I am interested in the above solution and is going to try it.

Sci-Fi Movie

What kind of movie will you expect when you see the title "IP MAN"? To me, it is definitely a sci-fi Matrix-like movie. Wrong answer! It is actually a Hong Kong martial art movie about the master of late martial art movie star, Bruce Lee. Ip Man was the name of the master in Cantonese. I wonder if he would be a hacker today if he's not dedicated to martial art.

Sell It to Your Boss

Recently there's been argues on company directions and where to put most of our resources on. The main reason is that we didn't have marketing function in the organization before, and the CEO and Sales head have different directions on what's the best move in such troubled time to prepare for the rising wave when it comes.

Our not-clearly-defined-and-treated-as-sales marketing people complains that the company only values OEM sales; marketing is more like a liability than an asset. They are forced to change their job function to serve OEM customers as sales assistant, which will deprive their previous time from marketing planning. As everyone can imagine, every body is thinking about quitting.

Yes, every boss is an idiot. However, I would say, if you are willing to spend 6 months educating potential customers, create relationship with channels, and expect people you don't know to buy your products, why not spend three months to educate your boss, improve relationship with the one who pay your bills, and see what will happen? Quitting may look cool, but it ain't get you anywhere except one job after another and another, because there's always another idiot waiting in the next company. I will not go down without a fight--tenderly.