By Renegade on Sunday, February 21, 2010 7:57 PM

I just was talking with a friend about doing business with people from different places and how difficult some places/people are.

Then we get to the topic of Korea.

Korea is actually very good to do business with if you know how to. Koreans want to do business, although they like to do it in a particular way. Once you get that, you're pretty much fine. In other places, people don't seem to want to do business sometimes. They say they do, but their actions just don't line up. (We both found the same thing about one particular place/people that shall remain unnamed.)

Both my friend and I understand how to do business in Korea very well, so that's not a problem for us, but I can imagine it being a problem for others that aren't as well versed in how Koreans like to do things.

It looks like I may end up going to Korea for some business, and I'm quite excite to go there. I really like the place, and it will always have a speci Read More »

By Renegade on Sunday, February 21, 2010 8:51 PM

Just a silly note after a conversation with a friend on the topic --- I've found it impossible to find decent quality drinking glasses in Australia. I've only been able to find cheap crap. You know that crummy glass that has a wretched sound when you flick it with your fingernail and a creepy, plastic-like feel?

It's in stark contrast to Penang (Malaysia) and Seoul, where you can find good quality glasses for relatively cheap. I can get good glasses for about $4 USD here in Penang, and similarly in Seoul. Melbourne has proven to be a wasteland for quality drinking glasses.

I did manage to find some good quality Luminarc whiskey glasses in Melbourne, but those were the only ones.

Cheers,

Ryan

 

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By Renegade on Monday, February 08, 2010 5:36 AM

Well, it appears that lately some of the major email providers have improved their spam filters. This is certainly a welcome change as I get tired of having to email again and again for no good reason. I've noticed as I've not had anyone in the past while email me about a failed GDT license email delivery.

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By Renegade on Friday, February 05, 2010 12:14 PM

This is a little trick that I like to do that I mentioned in passing a few days ago. It's to disable then re-enable buttons in C# without know the name of the button. It relies on the sender.

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By Renegade on Friday, February 05, 2010 11:01 AM

I just about never do things the same way twice. I always end up looking for a better way to do things. Well, not really that case this time, but I couldn't remember the AM/PM string formatters, so I do a quick search and turn up with http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/CSharpDateManipulation.aspx. It's got a very good treatment of things there.

I generally search online rather than go to the Visual Studio MSDN library documentation because the library is rather slow, and I'm not all that patient. ;)

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By Renegade on Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:26 PM

I'M SO HAPPY I COULD DIE~! WOW~! Like seriously! PayPal is just the best way to pay. It's fast, easy, and WAY more secure than credit cards. And now Air Asia takes PayPal in Australia!

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By Renegade on Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:29 AM

I was checking out map SDKs and APIs a couple weeks ago, and today got a CodeProject newsletter...

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By Renegade on Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:33 AM

When driving around, it's kind of important to know where you're going. Signs really help a lot.

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By Renegade on Monday, February 01, 2010 5:46 PM

There's a really slick and easy HTML code formatter that does a few languages, including C#. http://manoli.net/csharpformat/

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By Renegade on Monday, February 01, 2010 2:15 PM

Sigh... I've been trying to buy a car for over a month, and the people that I wanted to buy a Mercedes C280 from have just been making it impossible. Well, finally getting a car tomorrow, but not the C280.

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By Renegade on Sunday, January 31, 2010 10:11 PM

Coming from the most connected country on the planet to Australia is really not very fair, but so what. Banks here are just simply primitive. Like rocks are challenging primitive... Six character passwords? It gets worse... Ever seen a bank scream "hack me"? You're about to if you read on...

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By Renegade on Friday, January 22, 2010 8:37 AM

Nothing makes me degenerate into a blood-thirsty, profane rage like a web site that makes it impossible for me to give them money. Really. I scream and curse and yell and generally just freak out whenever it happens, which is really far too often. Apress makes me happy~! Read more to find out why. (FAIR WARNING: Rant includes profanity and could be offensive to some, especially morons that can't get a simple "take my money" page done right.)

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By Renegade on Friday, January 08, 2010 9:30 AM

I have a component toolkit that was really cheap, but the guys there are real fast with support tickets. PureComponents.

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By Renegade on Friday, January 08, 2010 8:58 AM

Well, looks like a friend is being politically assassinated here in Australia... Just goes to show that there are douche bags in politics everywhere.

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By Renegade on Saturday, January 02, 2010 8:24 AM

FAIR WARNING: This is a total rant, and if you're easilly offended, then don't bother reading. Really. I mean that. This will be offensive to thin-skinned, PC, do-gooders that love to feel good about themselves and tow the party line. (See? I'm being offensive already. I wasn't kidding.  )

Anwyays... I really detest self-righteous, pompous, do-gooder, scum-bag thieves and hypocrites... Especially PC ones... Which brings me to today's rant on recycling plastic costs...

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By Renegade on Friday, January 01, 2010 10:39 AM

So my wife and I are sitting at the table eating lunch, last night's chili, and she says, "The chili tastes better today." Well, nothing like a brain fart to set me off on a tangent!

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By Renegade on Monday, December 28, 2009 9:09 AM

So, as my parents live half-way around the planet, it's kind of hard to visit. So, I decided to keep my marriage secret for a bit...

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By Renegade on Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:26 PM

Once upon a time I wrote about how to convert iTunes AAC or M4A music into more compatible formats. Well, this is an update on how to do that for the newer versions of iTunes.

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By Renegade on Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:58 AM

WOW! FINALLY! Somebody else said it! I've been ranting alone about the insanity in the computer security industry, and finally there's someone else out there saying to take it down a step!

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By Renegade on Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:53 AM

In a word, WOW! John Boswell has some fantastic videos at SymphonyOfScience.com.

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