Albert T. Wong - 黃頌言

Makes me want to buy a Snapper.

The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart
Every year, thousands of executives venture to Bentonville, Arkansas, hoping to get their products onto the shelves of the world’s biggest retailer. But Jim Wier wanted Wal-Mart to stop selling his Snapper mowers.

One of my newest articles just got published!

IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: The top Java EE best practices
Over nearly the entire last decade, much has been written about Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) best practices. There are now dozens of books and hundreds (perhaps more) of articles that provide insight into how Java EE applications should be written. In fact, there are so many resources — often with contradictory recommendations — that merely navigating this maze has itself become an obstacle to adopting Java EE. Therefore, to provide some simple guidance for customers entering this world, we have compiled this best-of-the-best list of what we feel are the most important and significant best practices for Java EE. Despite our earnest attempts, however, we weren’t able to capture everything that needed to be said in a neat top-ten list. Thus, in order to avoid omitting critical best practices — and also to honor the growth of Java EE — our list instead is an essential “Top 19″ best practices for Java EE.

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Wired: Bodyhack Biotech and Sexuality Blog from Wired.com

The British Medical Journal has counted the online votes and named the biggest medical advance since 1840. And the award goes to… sanitation.

Ooo, sexy.

Well, actually, it sorta is: “sanitation” refers to both clean water and sewage systems, which have surely saved mllions of lives since the BMJ was founded. (That’s why they picked the weird year of 1840.)

Top 10 Reasons Why Proposals Fail : Instigator Blog
Your business is great. You’ve invented something better than sliced bread. You offer such an amazing service at such a great price that people should be knocking your door down.

And they might be. But they’re all asking for a proposal.

Proposals are a fact of life. We all do them, and we’re all trying to blow our prospects away.

Find restaurant secrets at Top Secret Recipes - Lifehacker
Want to make a cherry Slurpee in your own kitchen? How about California Pizza Kitchen’s famous BBQ Chicken Pizza? And homemade Cinnabon for dessert? You can find these recipes and hundreds more at Top Secret Recipes.

The site organizes the recipes by brand, starting with Applebee’s and ending with Z’Tejas Southwestern Grill. In between you’ll find not only restaurants, but also individual foods and drinks: AriZona tea, Bisquick, Mrs. Dash and so on. Each recipe includes comments and user ratings, most of which are overwhelmingly positive. The site promises a new recipe each week, and although there’s no RSS feed for easily tracking them, you can subscribe to a once-weekly e-mail newsletter.

I have to say, browsing this site made me feel like a kid in a Mrs. Fields store (yes, her storied cookie recipe is here). However, while some of the recipes are free, most will set you back 79 cents. But if you love to cook (or just want to save money on dining out), that’s a pretty small price to pay. — Rick Broida

Is Your Boss a Psychopath?
One of the most provocative ideas about business in this decade so far surfaced in a most unlikely place. The forum wasn’t the Harvard Business School or one of those $4,000-a-head conferences where Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists search for the next big thing. It was a convention of Canadian cops in the far-flung province of Newfoundland. The speaker, a 71-year-old professor emeritus from the University of British Columbia, remains virtually unknown in the business realm. But he’s renowned in his own field: criminal psychology. Robert Hare is the creator of the Psychopathy Checklist. The 20-item personality evaluation has exerted enormous influence in its quarter-century history. It’s the standard tool for making clinical diagnoses of psychopaths — the 1% of the general population that isn’t burdened by conscience. Psychopaths have a profound lack of empathy. They use other people callously and remorselessly for their own ends. They seduce victims with a hypnotic charm that masks their true nature as pathological liars, master con artists, and heartless manipulators. Easily bored, they crave constant stimulation, so they seek thrills from real-life “games” they can win — and take pleasure from their power over other people.