Ordinary Gweilo
It's not big and it's not clever, it's just a Brit in Hong Kong writing (mainly) about Hong Kong
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Month: Mar 2004
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The wheels seem to have come off the IP bandwagon (at least slightly), and anyone who bought shares in Tom Online would make a loss if they sold their shares immediately. The Financial Times connects this to what happened at Vanda, where the share price has fallen substantially since it became the proud owner of…
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From Mozambique (allegedly):
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I have had a very frustrating day. We ordered some tailor-made furniture a long time ago, and it finally arrived yesterday, followed today by the people who install it. We imagined that this would take a couple of hours, but in fact they spent all day here and it still isn’t finished.Prior to coming to Hong Kong I…
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Another slightly puzzling story from the somewhat unusual world of Hong Kong public companies. After the recent shuffling of assets by Hutchison Whampoa, another member of the family is following suit according to The Standard. It seems that PCCW will revert to being a fixed-line telecom and Internet company, and that Richard Li will end…
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From the moribund and moronic NTSCMP forum, we hear from someone who believes what they read on IceRed: Steve posted 2/29/04 6:13 AM ——————————————————————————–On one of the forum some one boasts of drugging and raping women. Would that not require the ICERED site to inform the police and supply an ISP? Supply an ISP? What…
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There was an intriguing piece in last week’s Sunday Morning Post about an architect who is renting two adjoining apartments in a Kowloon Tong apartment block. It seems that he managed to persuade the owner and the management company to allow him to remove the front doors of both apartments and construct a new front…
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My son called me this afternoon whilst I was at work, complaining that his DVD of ‘Spy Kids’ was in Chinese and our helper couldn’t switch the language to English. This is true – for some reason, the normal method of pressing the ‘language’ button the remote control does nothing on this DVD. Instead you…
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What is “widely used by lawyers to cheat you, by doctors to scare you witless and by houseplant sellers to shift their wares?” From The Economist, comes a review of a new book that attempts to put Latin back into everyday life. I was going to say that I studied Latin at school, but that…
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HSBC ran into some flak in the UK over its record profits, and apparently their online banking service was down earlier this week, but I have to give them some credit for improving the banking experience. At lunchtime today I went to a new branch of HSBC, and found that they have managed to eliminate…
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An interesting follow-up to the furore about the Hutton Inquiry. It seems that, according to The Guardian Lord Hutton is surprised that Gavyn Davies and Greg Dyke felt the need to resign in reponse to his criticism. He apparently did not mean the following passage to be taken as a general criticism of the BBC:…
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