Month: Nov 2005
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This week I am mainly…being grumpy. I hate it when things go wrong and I can’t do anything about it (as opposed to work – where I hate it when things go wrong and I can’t avoid doing something about it). My LCD monitor stopped working. That is to say that it started worked for…
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Comedy shopping moment. Went to buy an MP3 player. The assistant showed me one, it looked suitable and the price was reasonable, so I said ‘OK’ and started to reach for my wallet. However, before I could put my credit card on the counter, the assistant sprang into action: "I offer you the best price"…
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I don’t normally find anything useful over at Fumier‘s worthless blog, but one of his readers has decided that he might as well have a go at this lark himself. The result is Mackered, the "Random thoughts of a somewhat confused gweilo." Quite funny so far. Better than acerbic comments on the standard of driving…
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For the last few weeks I have been receiving an email each day from Asia’s dullest newspaper with a link to a PDF version of their newspaper (it may not be all of the newspaper, but I’m sound asleep well before page five, so I really can’t say). Global news for the successful decision maker,…
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My blog is worth $18,065.28.How much is your blog worth? [Via every other blog in the world] I wish it were true… Incidentally, it seems to regard all Blogspot blogs as worthless, which probably tells us all we need to know about the value of this exercise. Talking of which, Vince over at HKMacs is…
Ordinary Gweilo 