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 2007
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What I want to know is this. Is it possible to wear a bluetooth headset on a semi-permanent basis and not look like a complete idiot? I can understand people wearing them when driving, and I suppose they are very useful if you are a courier, but is there any other excuse? Put it on…
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One of the more enduring mysteries in football is how certain managers seem to pop up time and again in spite of their conspicuous lack of success. Graeme Souness, for example, who was interviewed for the job of Bolton manager: Graeme Souness was a candidate on our target list and he has now decided to…
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ATV World are showing Heston Blumenthal’s series In Search of Perfection on Tuesday nights. I’ve only watched one so far, but it was a wonderfully bizarre program. When Heston does sausage and mash, you won’t be surprised that he goes to great trouble to source the finest organic pork and even travels up to the…
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Just over a year ago I mentioned that the BBC would be launching several new channels in Hong Kong and elsewhere. Those channels (BBC Knowledge, BBC Lifestyle & CBeebies) are now available in Hong Kong, but apparently that’s only the start of it (according to The Guardian): The BBC’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, is to…
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It seems as if it’s impossible to sign up for a credit card or a pay-tv or broadband service – or almost anything which requires a long-term contract – without getting a free gift. Banks give stuff away if you meet certain criteria (my favourite current offer is the one gives you a free plane…
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Changing a fuse should be easy, right? Not in my kitchen, it isn’t. The kitchen has a built-in fridge, washing machine and microwave oven (all from the same manufacturer). Which is all fine and dandy, but which idiot decided that each appliance should have its own electrical socket? Fuses are designed to blow if there…
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I went into to a stationery shop to buy a toner cartridge for my printer. A thimble-full of ink for only HK$100 – thanks very much, people who design printers. What amused me was that the shop had used plastic ties in an attempt to prevent customers from stealing these hugely over-priced items. Which was…
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Help! I think I’m running out of time in the day to listen to all the podcasts I download. Football Weekly (from The Guardian) is now twice a week, and the BBC has started to offer many more shows, including the News Quiz, the Jonathan Ross show, and even The Archers. As luck would have…
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Another one of those surveys that seem to work wonders in getting free publicity. It was in Friday’s Independent London’s public transport is world’s best (no, really) and Sunday’s SCMP London ranked above HK in transport poll as well. A survey that voted London as having the best public transport system in the world has been greeted with…
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Apple have come in for a lot of criticism recently over the iPhone. First for reducing the price so soon after launching it, and then for issuing firmware updates that have done bad things to phones if people did naughty things that Apple didn’t like. Jack Schofield in The Guardian wonders if the iPhone could…
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