I don’t quite understand the point of this BB Box (SCMP registration required): Hong Kong Broadband Network, the city’s smallest fixed-line operator, aims to increase its customers’ use of broadband with the launch of its BB Box service, which brings computer multimedia files to a user’s television screen, according to chairman Ricky Wong Wai-kay. The service,…

From a rather splendid calendar I have been given.  This is about the pig: Character: Noble and chivalrous.  Your friends will be lifelong, yet you are prone to marital stress.  Avoid other pigs.  Marry a rabbit or a sheep Career: You easily get into arguments with your colleagues, yet you always win.  You should keep…

What exactly is the point of OFTA (the Office of the Telecommunications Authority)? Today, they have confirmed that Internet acccess is back to normal in Hong Kong, more than 7 weeks after cables were severed during the earthquake in Taiwan.  You might think that they would have been monitoring the service from the major ISPs to see what…

Hongkong Disneyland are now offering an annual pass (Disney passes aim to lure visitors) with prices that vary according to when you want to go there.  My advice (for what it’s worth) – don’t go there on a very hot day (because there’s not enough shade) or when it’s very busy (the queues are too long, and very few attractions currently have ‘Fast…

Only this morning I was wondering how many ways there are that I hate Hong Kong supermarkets.  This thought was prompted by the discovery that the most of the blueberries I bought a few days now seem to become rotten.  Would it really be so difficult to put “sell by” and “eat by” dates on the…

Last Saturday the SCMP published a letter from New World First Bus in response to a letter last Wednesday that said that they "get completely free use of the roads" (whereas the MTR and KCR have to pay for the railbeds).  It was quite a short letter, but it made two splendidly ludicrous claims:  In…

Sorry for the recent lack of postings.  I promise to try harder in future (well, maybe). A few odds and ends from the last couple of weeks, then. Former British prime minister Edward Heath died at the age of 89.  The obituaries all seemed to say the same thing – he was a grumpy old…

Spam is annoying enough, but why is so much of it in German recently? By the way, sorry for the lack of posting over the last week or so.  Very busy.

Sorry, I’m a bit busy right now.  Normal service will be resumed shortly.

From today’s Technology Post Q: I  really want to blog but I have no idea how to get started. I put blog into Google and there were just too many hits for me to follow. I am very much a beginner and I am not all that technical. Is this going to be really difficult…