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Month: Jan 2004

  • Some things I hate about PCs

    I have a theory about the humble PC, which is that it is still caught somewhere between being a toy for geeks and a consumer device. I speak as someone who has no wish to understand any more than is strictly necessary about operating system (or at least the ones that people won’t pay me…

  • Airline food’s not kosher

    Via Simon, a bit of a diatribe about Emirates not offering a kosher menu. They don’t seem to make any secret of this fact, listing the various special meals that are available. So travel agents and anyone else should easily be able to find out what is available. Bruce is indignant that his request for…

  • News round-up

    100,000 people marched through Hong Kong yesterday in support of democracy. This was more than the organizers estimate of around 20,000 (which I thought was rather pessimistic) but significantly fewer than marched in July. The police issued a rather mysterious estimate of the number they believed had gathered in Victoria Park before setting off (37,000)…

  • The circus comes to town

    Yesterday we went to the circus – the Great Moscow Circus in Wan Chai. I haven’t been to the circus since I was a child (quite a long time ago). Billy Smart’s Circus used to come to Clapham Common every year, usually just before Christmas, and a trip there was quite an exciting event. This…

  • WASP view of the world

    A revealing view of the world from Hemlock in the Gweilo Diaries I’m happy with the Neocons’ broad analysis: the superiority of anglo-saxon political and economic philosophies is self-evident. Simple anglo-saxon (as it happens) empiricism suggests the whole world would be a better and safer place if it shared the values of the US, the…

  • Banned

    I seem to have been banned from the NTSCMP discussion forum. So much for free speech.