I was wondering what they did with all those DVDs when they went out of business.

It will use T-Mobile, the largest MVNO provider in the US, which is majority-owned by the German company Deutsche Telekom and whose second-largest shareholder is Japanese investor Softbank.

Hong Kong News Awards time again. Our story on how China missed the bitcoin boom after chasing the industry out was second runner up in English business news writing.

Don't see a lot of this around Hong Kong these days.

Some in China once lamented that the country's TV and movies were too backwards-looking, celebrating its imperial history but not possible futures. As the US increasingly romaticizes it's own past, it's worth remembering that having hope in the future first requires imagining one.

Three years married to this lovely lady.

Some additional images from the Tanaka Tatsuya exhibit.

Tanaka Tatsuya has an exhibit at the Chiang Kai-shek memorial in Taipei. He's known for his creative use of miniatures.

While at a microbrewery in Tainan, a guy who works for TSMC walked in. He had just gotten back from a stint in Phoenix where he was doing work for the new plant. He brought the bar's owner a @dbacksbot.bsky.social hat. Rare to see gear from my favorite National League team on this side of the world.