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: Oct 2005
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No surprise there, then. The ESF has announced that they have made some fairly minor adjustments to the new salary packages for teachers to take effect next September. ESF chief executive Heather Du Quesnay said staff and parents had played a significant role in helping the foundation make changes to the proposal. "These changes have…
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Yesterday’s SCMP had a brief review of the latest Apple iMac G5. Given that it has a 20" screen and can burn DVDs, I was assuming that it would also function as a PVR, but clearly it doesn’t. This seems rather puzzling, though I suppose the obvious answer is that you can download stuff (illegally)…
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Fumier can be quite amusing, but when he ventures on to more serious subjects I usually disagree with him (very politely, of course), but I have to agree with him that ESF teachers are doing themselves no favours by letting Julian Harniess represent them in trying to stop the ESF from cutting their salaries. There…
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The government has said that it has no plans to foce mobile phone operators to extend their coverage throughout country parks. Predictably enough, politicians have been making a fuss about this. Ten years ago, most people didn’t have mobile phones, calls were expensive and coverage was patchy. That has all changed, and now we expect…
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Last week’s Sunday Morning Post had an exceptionally silly news story claiming it was no longer fashionable for local Chinese women to have Gweilo boyfriends, accompanied by all manner of tosh about the difficulty of cross-cultural relationships. They quoted from a newspaper column written by Chip Tsao, who had plenty of rude things to say…
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The front page of the SCMP over the weekend trumpeted the growth in circulation of both the daily and Sunday editions (up a whopping 4% over the same period last year). All so much blah blah, but what caught my eye were the excuses they offered for the earlier fall in circulation: Yes, that’ll be…
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IceHeat is a new discussion forum from someone who says they are bored waiting for IceRed to return.
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Thinking of buying an iPod Nano? How about one with 200gb of storage? Details here. Battery life not very good, apparently.
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There was an interesting article in Business Week last week about PCCW and its Now Broadband TV service (sorry – I was waiting until it became freely available, but it seems that it doesn’t work that way and you may not be able to read it unless you are a subscriber). The piece points out…
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