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: Jan 2008
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Gotta love it when they get it so spectacularly wrong. This morning (Hong Kong time) it seemed like a done deal – Barack Obama’s convincing victory in the New Hampshire primary was very bad news for Hillary Clinton. Then over the next few hours the headlines changed, first pointing to a dead heat and then…
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Danny Baker’s podcasts (which I mentioned before) have come to a sudden halt. They started on Wippit on an occasional basis back in March, and became regular in May. Then in September they started charging £2 per week, but technical problems with the downloads from Wippit caused them to suspend it almost immediately. They did…
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I highly recommend Ben Goldacre’s website Bad Science and his column in The Guardian. He is a (medical) doctor, and has taken it upon himself to expose quackery and the appallingly sloppy way that science is reported in newspapers and on TV. He does it effectively and entertainingly. A good place to start is his…
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New Scientist reports that Nokia are going to launch a new phone which will be able to translate menus from Chinese to English. IF YOU think you are ordering ice cream from a foreign menu, you don’t want to end up asking for a plate of sheep’s eyes by mistake. A cameraphone Nokia plans to…
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Happy New Year and all that. Another 12 months of rubbish to come…
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