Kingsoft Office 2007 launches at ¥4,980 with Microsoft Office compatibility — thoughts from someone whose anti-Windows professor made him present a thesis without PowerPoint.

Picked up a ¥1,500 balance ball over the long weekend. For someone who sits at a desk all day, lying back over it stretches everything — the catch is it’s a 65cm ball in a small apartment.

A typhoon wrecked my five-day break’s travel plans — but lazing around at home while everyone else is back at work has its own kind of luxury.