A Hateful Column in AsianWeek
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A hateful column in AsianWeek should never have been printed. ButÂ  it touched on a subject--tensions between blacks and Asians--that could benefit from some clear, constructive thought.
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As Indonesiaâs former strongman lay on his sickbed this week, the country was by its actions repudiating him.
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Indonesia&#39;s president-elect, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, faces a task that&#39;s as unpleasant as it is necessary. Sometime soon after his inauguration next week, he&#39;ll have to risk popular backlash and raise fuel prices.
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Asians tend not to be very straightforward. They avoid precise questions and exact answers, even on matters of paramount importance - like money.
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When I suggested in a recent column that a problematic 5 percent of employees account for 75 percent of the IT support burden, I expected a wave of âright on!â letters from IT support staffers. After the column was published, the letters did come â most of them disagreeing with my premise, with one reader suggesting that the real whiner was yours truly. I still think itâs outside the realm of overextended IT departments to provide training on basic computing skills (which I defined as âmanaging and finding files, and basic working knowledge of suites such as MS Officeâ). But my thinking was adjusted a bit by the thoughtful feedback.
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Tycho:  With PAX coming up this weekend (!!!), we didn't really have time on Friday to invest in Virgil's Wikiscanner - that mystical oracle that takes a raw IP range and then excretes a list of that organization's Wikipedia edits.  This is the pulsing, possibly Martian device that dished up last week's awesome Electronic Arts edits.    I wasn't sure if we should feel sorry for them or not - now that EA is situated in the number two slot, does that make them the scrappy underdog? - but I quickly realized it probably doesn't matter.  They can come right out and say "Yes, we edit it all the time," mischaracterize the nature of the edits, and by the time it's on the second page the events in question never happened.  People don't remember anything these days that isn't on the first page of their feed aggregators. In any case, the entire affair is talking place  on Wikipedia.  Kudzu will grow over the propaganda soon enough.    Though time was indeed in short supply, we did fritter some portion of it pawing through ancient email headers, scraping for filth on old enemies.  Or enemies with whom we have resumed talks.  Or enemies who are now friends!  Even people I hope to make enemies in the future by my careless commentary must fall beneath the scanner's baleful eye.    Like a chugging trawler, we hauled up net after net of treasure onto the deck, sifting it on hands and knees.  I'd never expose it, of course - sparking a desperate arms race to find self-serving commentary is a conflict I'm likely to lose.  And with the deep catalogue of nemeses we've inspired worldwide (and even below the world, in the warrens of the pale Gambrya, where hate is eternal) it's not what I'd call a fabulous scenario.  For us, at least; no doubt, our foes have already begun their malevolent harvest.
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Yoshiaki Murakami has become a lightening rod for public ire at JapanÂs tilt toward American-style capitalism.
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A project to build a cultural complex in Hong Kong has become the center of a bitter local and international debate in the last few weeks.
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Editors at The New York Times and Los Angeles Times showed similar judgment one day last week in running large, front-page pictures of tsunami victims. Faces of dead babies in makeshift morgues were clearly visible. They were the type of images you were hard-pressed to see during hours of television coverage.
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Editor&#39;s note: The following column might be unsuitable for immature readers. It has been written with a five-sentence delay to prevent any embarrassing paragraph malfunctions.
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Like most decent Americans, I have been sickened by the Michael Vick dogfighting debacle. There can be no excuse for torturing and abusing man's best friend -- forcing dogs to fight to the death, under penalty of death. That a high-profile athlete like Vick carried this out in the name of "sport" makes it all the more disgusting.
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I'm unsure what good will come out of this whole incident. The problem is that when emotions run high, as they did here, people tend to spend more time fortifying their own positions rather than exploring new ones.
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Editors at The New York Times and Los Angeles Times showed similar judgment one day last week in running large, front-page pictures of tsunami victims. Faces of dead babies in makeshift morgues were clearly visible.
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It seems even a crusty old newshound like me can get burned. My item last week about a couple naming their baby âYahooâ turns out to be a hoax cooked up by a (now-unemployed) Romanian tabloid reporter. Reporters making things up just for a laugh? I am shocked, simply shocked.Â
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USUALLY trumpeted as a largely tolerant and syncretic brand of the religion, Islam in Indonesia has had some bad press in the past few months.
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No doubt some will say the Jakarta bomb is a vicious retort to Howard&#39;s Iraq policy. It requires a medieval mindset to conceive of the sort of savagery the world witnessed in Beslan.
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A former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review yesterday launched a scathing attack on the magazine&#39;s US parent company Dow Jones for closing down the Asian news weekly.