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: Jun 2005
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Poor old Phil at Expat@Large has been suffering from that heady mix of arrogance and incompetence that seems to afflict large companies from time to time. He registered his domain name with Lycos, who then decided that they didn’t want to accept pesky foreign credit cards and so refused to take his money to renew…
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My wife was watching the news last night on Cable TV and exclaimed that some people had died in Switzerland from eating some cheese called T-O-M-M-E. Indeed they have, though I am not sure how this really rather obscure story made it on to the news in Hong Kong. I can’t find any mention of…
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It seems that online poker is the latest way to make a fortune. Not by playing it, of course, but by owning the websites where people play. The Guardian reports that the owners of the most popular website (PartyPoker) are going to become billionaires when the company floats. Don’t surprise me – several of my…
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How can it be so difficult to setup a website that people can use? In fact, why would you bother to setup a website that was people can’t use? Now, to be fair, I think PPS is a great idea. Pay your bills by phone any time, day or night, whichever bank you use. …
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