Our old friend Conrad (Gweilo Diaries) suddenly disappeared a few weeks ago, and then his domain was acquired by someone else (who hoped to profit from all the traffic), which seemed to be fairly conclusive proof that he had gone for good. Now he has offered a brief explanation (via Shaky) for his sudden and…

100sq foot each is a new blog noticed by Simon.  The author is another Brit married to a Hong Kong Chinese, and he claims to live in Island East (as Swire are trying to persuade us to call the area they are re-developing in the vicinity of Quarry Bay).  He wishes us to know that…

Simon has announced the results of the Asia Blog Awards.  When this all started I confessed my indifference towards the whole process, and nothing has really changed my views.  The top three for Hong Kong (as voted for by you, the people with access to several different computers) are as follows:  1. EastWestSouthNorth – 307 votes2. Glutter –…

Some moron is sending me a large number of trackbacks linked to non-existent sites.  What’s the point of that?  UPDATE: Someone has kindly posted a link to another blogger who has had the same problem and apparently understands what it’s all about.  It seems that these morons are testing a new script, and presumably they’ll…

Well, that wasn’t quite what I was expecting! I mentioned last week that I felt somewhat indifferent towards the Asia Blog Awards, and one reason was that I felt fairly sure who the top five or so would be, and reasonably confident that I would be somewhere around the bottom of the top ten. Nothing…

Phil is too busy, so Hong Kong’s most hyperactive blogger has temporarily taken over the Asia Blog Awards.  I wish I could be more enthusiastic about this, but honestly I’m not.  I’m not doing this in the expectation of winning any awards, and if I were then I would go about it in a different…

Sorry for any inconvenience, as they say when they don’t really mean it.  Too busy at work, and sitting in front of a computer in the evening writing more of this rubbish isn’t always the most attractive option. Odd goings on elsewhere.  HkMacs has been unavailable (to me, at least) for several weeks, apart from…

Two new blogs. The author of Why is the platypus? seems to be an Australian and Shaky thinks he’s in Korea, though he may be about to move to Shanghai (where he might find Wanbro is he takes the job he has been offered at a pathetically low salary).  All the usual stuff, possible a…

I know I am always complaining about Hong Kong TV, but this time it’s serious.  Putting Phil Ingram and Randall (BWG) on TV at a time when children might be watching is really very irrresponsible.  They were on RTHK’s Media Watch (shown earlier this evening on TVB Pearl) along with Dan Gillmor, who is promoting…

I think I should make Ordinary Gweilo more like this. Some will tell you that it already is.