George Adams has a marvellously batty conspiracy theory about Peter Gordon, Nury Vittachi and IceRed. Last time he took it out for a spin, the central hypothesis was that Peter Gordon was the owner of IceRed and was using this power to supress any criticism of Nury (and presumably to be beastly to George into…

Mia points out another new Hong Kong blog, though the title is enough to put most right-thinking people off reading it (so it’s not going on my bloglist*). She seems to have been rather confused by New Town Plaza, the hideously large and rambling shopping centre in Sha Tin. Me too. Also [this time via…

One of the complaints about blogs is that they tend to subvert the Google search algorithm. These days if you do a search you are very likely to find something from a blog, simply because of the number of links that are floating around.  Harry discovered that he came up 29th if you type British…

Last night, Simon had his baby headwetting in Lan Kwai Fong, and the cream* of Hong Kong’s blogging community turned up to join the celebrations. We started in Stormy Weather, Phil dragged us into Bulldog’s and after I left they went on somewhere else. The beer and champagne flowed freely, and there must be a…

So what’s been happening whilst I’ve been away? Babies seem to the theme – Simon and his colleague Giles seem to have become fathers for the 3rd and 2nd times respectively. Simon is having a celebration on Wednesday, and I will try to pop along for an hour or so. Congratulations to both gentlemen and…

Typepad is reasonably user-friendly, but I still have to key everything in using a web brower, which is not ideal (and makes it all too easy to lose your work). So I’ve been testing Blogjet, which is a small application that allows you to create posts offline and publish them. There are others, such as…

Hey, this is a bit spooky. For the second time in a few days we discover a new Hong Kong blog that has kind things to say about Ordinary Gweilo. This time it is Wanbro: seemingly self-deprecating but actually fairly insightful Ordinary Gweilo. I suppose if I tried really hard I could track these people…

I’ve been wondering where Simon had gone, and now I think I’ve figured it out. On Monday he took part in the cheese-rolling event in Gloucestershire. On Tuesday he popped over to Paris to watch Tim Henman win his quarter-final in the French Open, and tonight he has a secret assignation with Helen in London.…

I was slightly surprised to find that Conrad had suddenly taken an interest in obesity and inequality, having rather mysteriously started reading liberal columnists in The Guardian for inspiration. Polly Toynbee’s column was one of dozens (if not hundreds) in the UK on the subject of obesity, which seems to be a current national obsession…

I hope someone can explain this to me. Simon posted a comment about his tax dollars, highlighting a rather old story about Hong Kong making a loan to Thailand and seemingly linking it to their madcap scheme to buy 30% of Liverpool FC. Then Conrad picked up the story and complained about his tax dollars.…