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: Dec 2006
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That mysterious man Ron Goodden is at it again, getting his letter (Let Israel be Iraq’s guide) published in the SCMP. Yet again there is no apparent connection with Hong Kong, and Mr Goodden lives in Atlanta, Georgia – which wasn’t anywhere near Hong Kong last time I checked. It’s not as if the SCMP…
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The BBC has made an interesting announcement: Hundreds of episodes of BBC programmes will be made available for free on a file-sharing network for the first time, the corporation has announced. The move follows a deal between the commercial arm of the organisation, BBC Worldwide, and technology firm Azureus. The agreement means that users of…
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One of the better jokes in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is when Arthur Dent is informed that the plans for the (imminent) destruction of Earth were on display for nine months and no-one objected. It seems that the something similar happened with the government’s plan to demolish the Star Ferry Pier. After they…
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Hemlock has noticed this article from the Financial Times (also here): Yet a belief persists in Hong Kong that its future interest lies, not in accentuating its distinctive strengths, but in blurring them by throwing in its lot with the mainland. Sooner or later, the argument goes, it will be enveloped economically by its giant…
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Buy an iPod? No, not me, they’re over-priced and not really that much better than any other MP3 player. That was my view, so about a year ago I bought a small Creative MP3 player. Nothing much wrong with it, but it’s not exactly user-friendly. So now I have an iPod Nano. The GUI is user-friendly, and…
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The blog with no comments continues to puzzle me not inconsiderably. I was expecting large quantities of misguided rhetoric about rational self-interest (i.e. why companies should be free to do just whatever they like and hang the consequences), and I did really think that there might be some fun to be had from picking apart…
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When I was walking to the supermarket on Sunday I was slightly surprised to see a police wagon driving along and a couple of policeman standing by the side of the road looking bored. Then I remembered that we were having an election. How could I have forgotten? Well, maybe because (like most people in Hong Kong) I…
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EastSouthWestNorth (EWSN) is undoubtedly one of the most ambitious English language blogs in Hong Kong – what Roland Soong mainly does is translate newspaper articles and blog postings from Chinese into English. This ought to be a useful public service for those us too lazy to learn Chinese, because the harsh reality is that Dr.…
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Yesterday London was hit by a tornado! The Sun has photographs of what it did to houses in a suburban street. Scary stuff. The Guardian’s picture is rubbish, but their story may be more informative: Wild weather: floods, gales and the terrifying sight of a tornado in London Just before 11am in a fashionable part…
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Wednesday’s SCMP had a short piece about the English Premier League coverage moving from Cable TV to Now Broadband TV (Premier League loss not end of world for i-Cable): Badge of honour At Now TV, meanwhile, executives are proud of their Premiership coup, but they can’t talk about it as much as they like because Cable…
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