Saw this from Youtube:

“I can’t believe this is happening in Georgia. I have family there.
Does anyone know if Florida or Alabama has been hit? I have friends in Florida.
And where is the National Guard?”

Same question on yahoo answers…

I liked the olympics opening ceremony last night.  In addition to the performances, I really enjoyed looking at the smiles on the athlete’s faces.

To celebate this great event, I have created a few header images for my blog. They have the dimension of 880×153. No particular reason to choose this resolution, it just evolved this way since I started to design this blog.  Here they are:

These pictures are based on words I used in an abstract of a paper. Bigger words have a larger voice.

Indeed, the paper is about pricing.

A pleasant surprise:

Past winners:
2007 Award for Best Paper in 2006
Bundling, Unbundling and Pricing of Multiform Products: The Case of Magazine Content by R. Venkatesh and Rabikar Chatterjee (20/2)
Runners-up
A Field Experiment to Assess the Interruption Effect of Pop-Up Promotions by Wendy Moe (20/1)
Designing Marketplaces of the Artificial with Consumers in Mind: Four Approaches to Understanding Consumer Behavior in Electronic Environments by Steven Bellman, Eric Johnson, Gerald Lohse & Naomi Mandel (20/1)

2006 Award for Best Paper in 2005
Can We Predict Customer Lifetime Value by Edward Malthouse and Robert Blattberg (19/1)
Runners-up
Who Are the Multichannel Shoppers and How Do They Perform? Correlates of Multichannel Shopping Behavior by V. Kumar and Rajkumar Venkatesan (19/2)
Collaborating to Create: The Internet as Platform for Customer Engagement in Product Innovation by Mohanbir Sawhney, Gianmario Verona and Emanuela Prandelli (19/4)
Consumers in a Multichannel Environment: Product Utility, Process Utility and Channel Choice by Sridhar Balasubramanian, Rajagopal Raghunathan and Vijay Mahajan (19/2)

2005 Award for Best Paper in 2004
Capturing Evolving Visit Behavior in Clickstream Data by Wendy Moe and Peter Fader (18/1)

2004 Award for Best Paper in 2003
Customers as Assets by Sunil Gupta and Donald Lehmann (17/1)

2003 Award for Best Paper in 2002
Intentional Social Action in Virtual Communities by Richard Bagozzi and Utpal Dholakia (16/2)

Found from here.

A couple of abbreviations: ‘TST’=Tsim Sha Tsui, and ‘CWB’=Causeway Bay.

Here’s a set of recommendations from Spike over at Hongkietown.

I’d add:

Tai Woo, East Ocean. Tack Hsin and Hoi Tin — four chains all over HK, very competent and reasonably priced Cantonese seafood palaces and decent dim sum.

Little Sheep — China-based chain famous for northern style hotpot.

Under Bridge Spicy Crab — as the name says.

Xiao Nan Guo — Shanghai-based chain

and reading the Cha Xio Bao blog for lots of great, off-the-beaten path tips.

Mr Tall adds:

I’ve done a bit of googling about for some specifics. I certainly haven’t tried all of these places, and if you know of one that’s moved/closed/terrible, please let us know.

• You can find Tai Woo restaurant branches as follows:Causeway Bay Branch:
  27 Percival Street.
  Tel: 2893 0822; 2893 9882

  Shau Kei Wan Branch:
  192 - 198, Shau Kei Wan Road, Sai Wan Ho

  Central Branch:
  92 & 100 Caine Road, Central

  Tsim Sha Tsui Branch:
  14 – 16 Hillwood Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

• There are East Ocean branches as follows:5/FL., Miramar Shopping Ctr.,
  132 Nathan Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon.
  Phone: 2317 8889

  Level 3-302, New World Centre,
  Tsimshatsui, Kowloon.
  Phone: 2367 1133

  Shop 3202, Harbour City,
  Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, H.K.
  Phone: 2956 2882

  B1 East Ocean Ctr., 98 Granville Road,
  Tsimshatsui East, Kowloon.
  Phone: 2723 8128

  2/FL., Sun Hung Kai Centre,
  30 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.
  Phone: 2827 9938

  3/FL., Harbour Centre, 25 Harbour Road,
  Wanchai, Hong Kong.
  Phone: 2827 8887

  5/FL., CITIC Tower, 1 Tim Mei Avenue,
  Central, Hong Kong.
  Phone: 2877 2211

  Shop G201 The Repulse Bay,
  109 Repulse Bay Road, Hong Kong.
  Phone: 2803 1882

• Now how about some Tack Hsin outlets:1-13 Sugar Street
  Causeway Bay HK
  2894 8899

  84-86 Morrison Hill Road, Tsung Tsin Mansion
  Wanchai, HK
  2572 0898

  Shop 5, G/F, Pearl Court
  2-12 Holland Street, HK
  2872 6168

  2/F Peninsula Centre, 67 Mody Road
  TST East, Kowloon,HK
  2721 8102

  4/F Chong Hing Square
  601 Nathan Road, Kowloon, HK
  2780 0182

  3 Tak Hing Street
  Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, HK
  2723 2646

• There’s a Hoi Tin restaurant on:Elizabeth Bld, Causeway Bay
  Tel: 2891 3886.
• There are Little Sheep hotpot restaurants as follows:Wanchai Hot Pot
  Causeway Bay Plaza, Wan Chai
  Tel: 2893 8318

  Mongkok Hot Pot
  16 Kar Lo street, ground floor/1st floor
  Tel: 2396 8816

  Tsim Sha Tsui Hot Pot
  26 Kimberley Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui
  Tel: 2722 7633

  Tsuen Wan Hot Pot
  City Landmark, Tsuen Wan
  Tel: 2940 7678

• Now, for the marvelously-named ’Bridge under spicy crab’ restaurant:Shop C, G/F., Wah Fat Mansion, 405-419 Lockhart Road,
  Wan Chai, Hong Kong

  and/or

  Shop 6-9, G/F., 429 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
  Tel: 2893 1289 or 2573 7698

• And finally, a Xiao Nan Guo outlet:12th floor, Shell Tower, Causeway Bay (i.e. near Times Square)
  Tel: 2894 8899