James Hong

Update to my tracking of the price of 16 Pork XLB at Nanxiang XLB in Shanghai. 1997: 4 RMB 2006: 8 RMB 2010: 12 RMB 2013: 20 RMB 2023: 33 R...

In 2006 and 2010, I logged the price of 16 "xiao long bao" (soup) dumplings at the restaurant Nanxiang, located in Shanghai. (This...

After 3 years with Nexus Ones, Julia and I decided it was finally time to get new phones. In comparing pricing plans between all the US ca...

My friend Yishen Kuik of Katong Capital made a keen observation today.. --- Everyone knows that Eduardo Saverin, the Brazilian co-founde...

In the past I've written a bit about how US politicians were starting to demonize Asians, and specifically Chinese (all look same anywa...

This is probably stating the complete obvious, I know. Just a theory.. "Search, Plus your World" isn't about improving search,...

I've tried many times in the past to try and do some small exercises regularly, but i've never been able to keep it up for very long...

This was a really good read. It describes perfectly how entrepreneurs approach building things. Gotta love the "Typical MBA Horseshit. ...

I am supportive of democracy in the Middle East, if true democracy can be achieved. While extremists grab the headlines and form our impress...

Well here we go. It's clear that States and Municipalities are in trouble. You hear examples about even here in the bay area. Half moon ...

As I was growing up, asians in the US mass media were either depicted as hot subservient women that would make great newscasters or tekash...

Yet another example of propaganda being put out that may contribute to racism against Chinese people (and Asians in general) in the US.

The level of hypocrisy on Tim Geithner's part when he accuses China of manipulating its currency is astounding. The US is manipulating c...

Hey everyone, I just got back from my yearlong world trip, and man have things changed! i was thinking a bit about the whole angelgate thin...

One of my favorite television shows is The Amazing Race, where teams race around the world, stopping in various cities and completing tasks ...

The world is flattening, and what that means is that the people who used to live on the mountains are going to lose their beautiful views wh...

I visited Shanghai for the first time in 1997. It was then that I discovered the famous "Nanxiang Xiao Long Bao Restaurant". Xia...

I recently tweeted the following: "I disagree with almost every TC post i've ever read by Vivek Wadhwa. Financial incentives http:/...

Ben Horowitz wrote a good piece over at All Things D, in response to all the startups that try to go lean (keeping expenses as low as possib...

This is very interesting! Apparently birds understand Bayes Theorem better than humans do! via kevin lewis. --- Are birds smarter than mathe...

An incredibly saddening set of photos taken of the environmental destruction taking place in China. This pollution is driven by a relentless...

Julian Robertson (founder of Tiger Management) talks about our economy. He gets it dead on. In order to even possibly recover, the American ...

A country's economy lies in shambles. Debt owed based on a decade or two of bad behavior have crippled the country. Unemployment reache...

I somehow managed to convince Julia not to go back to her job post-maternity leave and instead plan a year long trip living in various citie...

A couple of years ago, I wrote a short blog post about happiness where I said that happiness = reality - expectations . My basic point was t...

Thanks to Jeremy Liew for connecting me to the kids that run a small iphone app shop called Zintin. I came to them with an idea for an app t...

I had breakfast with my friend Jeremy Liew this morning, and he mentioned I don't really blog anymore. It seems to me that services lik...

I've been having back pain for the last 2.5 years. It started out as a case of sciatica with the pain shooting down might right leg, but...

I just watched an episode of Wifeswap that has gotten a lot of attention recently. There's a horrible person in Noe Valley named Stephen...

Would love to have all the people slamming this dude in the video watch this and see what they have to say now.

It's Big Game week, the week of the year where Cal fans like to rub this video in Stanford's face. Thanks to Youtube, this is now do...

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It’s been a long time since I blogged anything meaningful. When I first started this blog, it was primarily for HOTorNOT communication. On...

Mine was too.. i searched around the web and found this.. worked like a charm! Enjoy :) http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?p=340...

All my friends know how much I absolutely love karaoke.. I've been wanting to get a system at home for years, but figuring out the right...

Julia worked in the city today, so she came home for lunch. As we were driving her back, we hit a road block.. Apparently they changed the ...

It was reported yesterday on Techcrunch that Jim and I sold HOTorNOT. I wasn’t originally going to make a big deal about the acquisition, p...

what i am about to say is probably obvious to everyone but me, but this morning something occured to me. I might be completely wrong, but: I...

the new address is http://blog.jhong.org please make a note of it. [beep!] (apache keeps dying on my james.hotornot.com machine, and i'm...

My friend is moving on from his gig as Jet Li's assistant. Interesting position as Jet seems to utilize his assistant in meaningful ways...