Ordinary Gweilo
It's not big and it's not clever, it's just a Brit in Hong Kong writing (mainly) about Hong Kong
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Month: Feb 2004
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I hope I don’t regret this, but I have changed my mind about NTSCMP. Perhaps it was George’s holiday in Switzerland that did the trick, because he seems to have got over the compulsion to be rude to everyone and slimmed down the site somewhat. Even Blogwatch is a shadow of its former self, reduced…
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One of the stranger features of our English language terrestrial TV channels (TVB Pearl and ATV World) is that they serve up current affairs programmes from the US and UK, but several weeks or months later. Last night, I caught part of “60 Minutes” on ATV World, and they had an interview with ‘Democratic front-runner…
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When I came home from work the other day, my son asked me whether I work hard. “Yes, of course” I replied (and actually I do). “So is your teacher happy with your work?” I suppose it’s an entirely logical view of the world when all you know is school. It has obviously never occurred…
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Typepad, who host this site, have apologized for the slowness and various problems over the last few days. As a pointless gesture they are giving me three free days of service. It just means that my next payment will be three days later than usual, not that I will actually pay them any less money.…
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Simon mentioned this a week ago based on an article in The Economist, but here is another one that challenges the myth that outsourcing is bad for the American economy. Someone recommended a book to me a couple of years back which takes an even more radical view. It is “Living on the Fault Line”…
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If you are looking forward to Euro 2004 in Portugal this summer, you might be interested in this Excel spreadsheet that has all the fixtures and automatically updates the league tables and shows you who has qualified for the knock-out stage. Thanks to Jim for sending it to me, but it appears to be the…
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One of my favourite features of the SCMP used to be the idiotic letters they often published. Sometimes just plain barmy (Simon Patkin), sometimes meaningless drivel. Nowadays they seem to have cut back on this, and I have to rely on blogs for that kind of thing. Or the letters column of China Daily. This…
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Yesterday, Phil reported on his expedition to buy pirate software. Today, Jake van der Kamp’s column in the SCMP argues that the goverrnment should ignore requests from foreign companies to enforce anti-piracy laws. This has prompted both Conrad and Simon to have had a bit of fun at the SCMP’s expense by reprinting the article,…
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I hate to miss out on things, and after having had a fax at home for several years I have finally started receiving junk faxes, at present just two pages each time (in the middle of the night). This is mildly annoying because it wastes my paper and ink, but thankfully it hasn’t woken me…
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This tale from Shaky reminds me of something similar that happened to me. A while back my idiot boss (based in another Asian country) sent an email to all her staff in the region advising them of their bonuses. Thinking she was clever, she pasted the appropriate figure from an Excel spreadsheet into each email…
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