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I see that Fumier is back. If you want something to read, I suggest you try there. Not here.

Why I switched on comment moderation

Some recent comments:

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You have a good understanding of China! Deeply the Chinese people I admire you! Thank you for your love! We will be better in China

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Happy Christmas and links updated

I have been taken to task by Mr Spike for linking to his old site, and I can't deny that a review of my list of Hong Kong blogs was long overdue.  It also turns out that Mr Hemlock has finally closed down his old site and moved to Wordpress, and a few old favourites have stopped alogether.

Oh, and Happy Christmas.

RSS - win one, lose one

Well, well.  I see that Hemlock has fixed his RSS feed, a mere 3 or 4 years after it stopped working.  I'm afraid that I can't be bothered going to a website to read a blog, so I have been missing his words of wisdom for quite some time.

Fumier's RSS feed disappeared some time ago, and I suppose this must be a policy decision (because he also deletes old postings after a month or so).  Still, the old fool usually sends me an email if he makes a reference to this blog, so I guess I'm not missing anything.    

Tidying up

I finally got round to reviewing my list of Hong Kong blogs, and I've pruned a few that have either disappeared or not been updated for several months.  I also re-instated one old favourite that went missing but which seems to be back, back, back.

Wandering Jew

Another Hong Kong blog, though not one that will trouble you with too many posts each week: Wandering Jew, who is apparently a Quality Migrant.

HK Photo Competition

I have been asked to mention HK Photo Competition, a new blog to publicize, well, a photo competition.  Go take a look.

Top 20 websites in Hong Kong: #8 - fearless, with slapdash grammar

Imagine my reaction upon reading Post Magazine in yesterday's Sunday Morning Post when I discovered that OrdinaryGweilo.com is one of the top 20 websites in Hong Kong.

My delight was somewhat diminished by a couple of things.

Firstly, that this list appears to have thrown together without very much research.  One might almost say it was slapdash...

For example, #11 is a site (Glutter) which hasn't been updated for about 4 months.  Also, I think I must point out that the author of Glutter (Yan Sham-Shackleton) is, of course, a woman, as a cursory glance through the website (or a Google search) would probably reveal.  And (as ulaca rightly points out), she is also no longer a resident of Hong Kong.

Secondly, I don't think anyone has taken any notice.  I dutifully checked my site statistics yesterday, and the impact of this mention appears to be somewhere between minimal and inconsequential.

However, I have to say that it cheered me up to be described as 'fearless'. 

Chinese news in English

Tau Tiul Yat Bow has a very simple concept - take the top story from HK Headline News (a free Chinese language newspaper) and translate the headline into English.

"Staff have no right to ask for alcohol test"
職員 ( jig yuen ) = staff
無權 ( mo queng ) = no right
要求 ( yau qui ) = request
吹波波 ( chui ball ball ) = alcohol test
黃宏發 ( wong hong fat ) = 1997 legislative council member
醉 ( zui ) = drunk
鬧 ( now ) = disturb
港鐵 ( kong tit ) = MTR
站 ( zhang ) = station
http://www.hkheadline.com/news/html_wnn/html/2008/1/25/wnn43270.html?section_name=wnn

Apologies, but I've forgotten where I saw this mentioned.

Run for your lives

I see that Fumier is back, back, back.  Same old nonsense, but this time the old cheapskate is on Blogger.