A curious postscript to my recent rant about trying to order stuff from companies with websites that don’t work very well. The goods that were sent to the less well-known New Territories in Canada have finally turned up with ‘try Hong Kong’ scrawled on the label.  Good thinking, that man.  After my complaint they had…

I’m sure I have previously mentioned the frustrations of using badly designed computer systems that assume that you must have a postcode or zip code.  Hong Kong is one of several countries that doesn’t have either, but often they insist that you enter something anyway. I have just had a very aggravating experience with one…

Living in Hong Kong and dealing with organizations based overseas can be very frustrating. For example, try filling in registration forms on the Internet. For one thing, they usually insist on a Zip or Post Code even though not every country has them. What’s worse is that they sometimes use this information later to find…