Ordinary Gweilo

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Month: Jun 2004

  • Euro 2004: Not good enough

    Who feels sorry for Italy, then? I suppose I do (at least a little bit) – a win and two draws from three games ought to be good enough, and apparently no team had previously been eliminated without losing a game. The unfortunate thing for them was that if Sweden and Denmark managed a high-scoring…

  • I think they deserve each other

    From another era (and another country)… A bizarre story from The Guardian: Tony Blackburn has been suspended from his show on Classic Gold for repeatedly playing Cliff Richard records when he was told not to do so. Seems to me that anyone who listens to Tony Blackburn deserves everything they get. A DJ who was…

  • Chuck Fruit at Coca-Cola

    I don’t normally do stuff like this, but I thought this was mildly amusing (from the FT): Coca-Cola names Chuck Fruit as its chief marketing officer

  • Euro 2004: That’s better

    Competitive match, great result, excellent performance. What more can you ask? Croatia are a useful side, and once they got their early goal it was clear that England would have to battle to get the result they needed. There were certainly times during the first half when I was beginning to wonder whether England would…

  • He’s stolen my title

    I read this in The Guardian last week, and now it’s on the BBC news site, so it must be true. Science Fiction author Ray Bradbury is upset because Michael Moore’s new film is called “Farenheit 9/11”, and he feels that the title was stolen from his own book “Farenheit 451”. How pathetic. You’d think…

  • The F word

    McDonalds seem to be fighting a losing battle when it comes to convincing people that their food is healthy and nutitious. However, they aren’t about to give up. In the Post Magazine today there’s a full page ad about their 100% beef patties. They say Each shank of beef is processed by state-of-the-art equipment. Before…

  • Chain Mail

    I get rather irritated with Internet chain letters.  Fortunately I don’t receive many, but when I do I check them against lists of known hoaxes.  Most are stupid or misguided, but some do have an element of truth.  Normally they usually include a warning of some kind, and presumably some people take notice of them…

  • Euro 2004: It’s the result that counts

    England’s performances in Euro 2004 so far are something of a puzzle. They played well for 90 minutes against France, but fell apart in injury time. Last night they were unconvincing against lesser opponents and yet recorded an emphatic victory. You really couldn’t ask for a much better result than a 3-0 victory, even if…

  • Cheese, glorious cheese

    I recently made one of my rare visits to the Great Food Hall in Pacific Place. I think I may have mentioned before that I find this place very frustrating – the prices always seem too high, and the selection of products seems a touch eccentric – and so I usually end up not buying…

  • Spike in trouble

    You may have read in Tuesday’s SCMP (or here) that Spike magazine is having some financial problems.  They are looking for additional financing, and may suspend publication if none is forthcoming.  Based upon the very limited amount of display advertising they currently have, and the apparent failure of their attempt to attract classified ads, it’s…