Ordinary Gweilo
It's not big and it's not clever, it's just a Brit in Hong Kong writing (mainly) about Hong Kong
recent posts
Categories
- Blogs
- Books
- Business and Commerce
- China
- Chinese language
- Corporate life
- COVID-19
- Current Affairs
- Dim Sum
- Economics & trade
- Environment
- Film
- Food and Drink
- Football
- Hong Kong business
- Hong Kong news
- Hong Kong politics
- Hong Kong property
- Life in Hong Kong
- Media
- Music
- News
- Oasis
- Personal stuff
- Politics
- Public Transport
- Rants
- Science
- SCMP
- Sports
- Technology
- Television
- The Apprentice
- The Palazzo
- Things I don't quite understand
- Travel
- Trivia
- UK
- Uncategorized
- Web/Tech
- World events
Month: Nov 2006
-
It appears that Now Broadband TV have secured the rights to the English Premier League from next season (from yesterday’s Standard). Their initial bid was significantly higher than anyone else, so under the rules of the auction there will be no 2nd round, and they are now in exclusive negotiations with the EPL to finalise…
-
This is an intriguing story on the BBC website (Physics promises an end to plugs and cables for your laptop): The tangle of cables and plugs needed to recharge today’s electronic gadgets could soon be a thing of the past. US researchers have outlined a relatively simple system that could deliver power to devices such…
-
First of all (via Hongkie Town), there’s HKGMB (Hong Kong’s Miserable Gweilo Bastard) who has been quite entertaining so far. Yesterday there was a flurry of activity on various blogs following the news of a bit of trouble at the SCMP. Take your pick from two blogs which are new to me: Mister Bijou (interesting comments here) and…
-
The fifth season of The Apprentice has now finished its run on TVB Pearl. As usual, the final task was split over two shows (though thankfully this time the second part was only 90 minutes). First, though, there was week 13, in which Roxanne and Allie were both fired for their hopeless performance. The…
-
Margaret Chan has been chosen as the new head of the World Health Organization, and the media here has predictably been celebrating this as a great honour for Hong Kong. Yeah, right. If you speak to ordinary people in Hong Kong they still remember what happened with SARS, and regard Margaret Chan as at least…
-
Wasn’t the “plug’n’play” concept supposed to make it easy to install hardware? Whatever happened to that idea? I recently purchased an HP Printer, which came with some software has that has to be installed before the printer is connected to the computer (the documentation contains a solemn warning that you must not connect the printer before installing the software). Well,…
-
A new cheese shop in Central. The website is useless, but apparently they will focus on British & Irish cheeses.
-
Mannings are currently advertising "25% off everything*", but if this were true their shops would be overrun with bargain-hunters. The reality is that this offer is so limited as to be meaningless. Firstly they have a long list of brands and product types that are excluded. Then they say that it does not apply to…
-
Simon Patkin is at it again. Today’s Sunday Morning Post includes a letter from him entitled “Don’t be fooled by alarmists on global warming”. He is responding to Christine Loh’s column (Global warming won’t wait – subscription required) on Thursday which referred to the Stern Review. The time she has seized on a report saying that global…
-
In his Policy Address, the Chief Executive announced that parents of children aged 3 – 6 will be given an “education voucher” worth HK$13,000 per child to contribute to kindergarten fees. The strange thing is that rather than using means-testing to limit the cost, they announced that some kindergartens will not be eligible – either because their fees are too high (there is a…
Ordinary Gweilo 