[When I first posted this short piece, it was featured on NTSCMP’s dreary Blogwatch and generated both positive and negative feedback.  However, when the comments started turning into a battle between those who wanted to defend Simon against my “unfair” attack, and those who agreed with me, I deleted the post and replaced it with…

Typepad, who host this site, have apologized for the slowness and various problems over the last few days. As a pointless gesture they are giving me three free days of service. It just means that my next payment will be three days later than usual, not that I will actually pay them any less money.…

I suppose that publishing this stuff makes me feel a certain obligation to read a reasonable selection of what my peers are writing.On a good day it gives me inspiration, but on a bad day I sometimes wonder what this is all about.  It’s easy to conclude that we (Hong Kong bloggers) are a miserable bunch of foreigners always finding…

My sister is arriving in Hong Kong today (with two of her children) and will be staying for a week.  This is her first visit to Hong Kong, and so I need to show her around, which probably means that I won’t have much chance to post to this blog for the next seven days.I was…

Steve Jobs (wearing his Pixar hat) has announced that he has broken off talks about renewing his company’s deal with Disney, and according to The Economist this means that Disney will be able to make “Toy Story 3” itself.  Anyone who has compared the Pixar films with other recent releases from Disney will realise that this is not a very…

I have added Sweet Chariots to my list of Hong Kong blogs.  A fellow Brit, and a colleague of Simon (whose blog persuaded me that if he could do it then I could).  He’s obviously a rugby fan.My recent post about comments on blogs seemed to provoke surprisingly strong feelings, but one useful thing that came out of…

Sorry, I’ve been playing around with the design. I’ve also re-instated the left column for the search, site meter and the Flippery Fish nonsense, plus the list of recent posts. It’s hard to know what’s best – but it looks fine on my monitor (which is set at 1280 x 1024) and I’ll check it…

I added a site counter, but so far it is not giving me the same results as the TypePad statistics, and I’m not quite sure why! I get very confused by the stats anyway, because I assume they are calculated based on the day from midnight wherever the company is based to midnight the next…

Before I started this blog, I had a few nagging doubts 1. Would I be able to find anything to write about? 2. Would anyone read it? 3. How much of my time would it take up? Finding things to write about is actually the least of my worries, and in fact I have a…

Been a bit busy these last couple of days, so I'm afraid this is all I can manage for now. I didn't watch that old geezer on the TV yesterday and I haven't read a newspaper today, so I can't offer any words of wisdom on the Policy Address or pontificate on the SARS thing.…