Today's column: Some factors for 2012

Today's column: A Merry, unplugged Christmas

Today's column: Under the missile-toe

Today's column: What does Santa say about you?

Today's column: Tracking the customers

Today's column: What's a basis point?

Today's column: The oil zombie

Today's column: Tastes like chicken

Today's column: Revenge of the brain spider

Here's my list of words that sound the same, but ain't!

Today's column: The brain spider

Today's column: Learn for free with Anki

Here's a link to Anki. Here's a link to my freeware list.

Today's column: New naval muscle for the Philippines

Some related links: A 76mm cannon in rapid fire (YouTube), a photo of the BRP Gregorio del Pilar (Wikipedia), and a photo of a Pohang-class corvette (GlobalSecurity.org).

Today's column: Tech, 2011: tablets

Today's column: Taking Middle Road to eBay

Today's column: The food is not the meal

Today's column: Quality?

Today's column: Jupiter

Todays column: Book review: Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar

Today's column: One ice skate, one zori

Today's column: Don't let the Dow dog you

Today's column: The public fish is very quiet

Today's column: Bread and circuses. Bonds and bad hair days.

Today's column: GDP: The optimistic side of things

The referenced data is here in Table 2 (PDF)

Today's column: SOHO, Saipan

Today's column: Chamorro Standard Time

Clarification: Although Tokyo and Sydney aren't tangled in daylight savings time right now, an alert reader emailed and said that Sydney during their summer (Saipan's winter) will adjust its clocks.

It just goes to show you: Stick with GMT when specifying time zones, it's a lot clearer and cleaner.

Today's column: Old cars, old tricks

Today's column: King Sejong the Great

Some related links:

Shipspotting.com has a construction photo off the port quarter.

Another good shot, this one showing the hull-mounted sonar.

SinoDefenseForum has some photos in their forum.

And here's a 58-second clip from YouTube.

Today's column: The last act of defiance

Today's column: Sticking it to the oil man

Today's column: Pimsleur and Rosetta Stone

Today's column: Cars and tourists

Here's a link to sales data from ChinaAutoWeb.com.

Today's column: Patent number 808,897

Today's column: One hundred percent, right here!

Today's column: Arms and Asia

Click here for a related article, published on Jan. 7.

Today's column: A jolly old brew

Today's column: Singing the big debt blues

Today's column: The world in a potato chip

Today's column: Three wise men

Today's column: Pencil-neck geek

Today's column: A note on rote

Today's column: Seven nuclear things

Today's column: Saving Saipan money with freeware

Here's a little page with links to good freeware: TropicalEd.com/free

Today's column: The gas station guy

Today's column: Going phishing

Since we're on the computer subject this week, I'm looking for "freeware" (free software) recommendations from readers. You can send them via my contact page.

Today's column: Love and War

The referenced Reuters story is here.

Today's column: Tattoo you

Today's column: The man who bet everything

Today's column: 'Dreaming in Chinese'

Today's column: Saving money with Skype

Today's column: Name that price

Today's column: Kilos and Klubs, spiders and flies