Ordinary Gweilo

One of the things you have to admire about George Adams is that he is always willing to admit that he was wrong.  He used to complain that blogs were trivial and inconsequential, and then he started putting photographs of his girlfriend (and all sorts of other trivia) on to his own website – though he can’t quite bring himself to use the b word.

He took part in a phone-in on RTHK and predicted that Spike magazine would fail because the Internet was the future.  Apparently he was also wrong about that, because he has now deleted all the content from his website and started publishing a print magazine instead (well, he deleted everything on the main page apart from a long plug for the print edition, but has now added a couple of new stories). 

I haven’t seen the magazine (distribution up in the wilds of the New Territories is patchy to say the least), but it is apparently available in dozens of branches of Park’n’Shop, which is owned by Li Ka Shing, who George accused of blocking his website (though others felt that it was actually a technical problem with his web host).  Obviously he’s changed his mind as well.

It’s hard to believe that he can sell enough copies even to cover his costs.  Or maybe this is all an elaborate joke.  Does he do jokes (apart from hugely amusing one about all bloggers being fat)?