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: Oct 2006
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Internet Explorer 7 is now available, and will be automatically installed this week if you are not careful. They’ve finally added tabbed browsing, but it still seems inferior to SlimBrowser (one of a number of products that use the insides of IE and then make it do useful things). From my perspective, the tabbed browsing function in SlimBrowser works exactly how…
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The SCMP had another go at analyzing Oasis Hong Kong Airlines on Sunday, but I think they’re still missing the point by asking “can an airline be both budget and long-haul?” As I have said before Oasis really have very little in common with budget airlines such as Southwest, Easyjet and Ryanair – the world’s least favourite airline. …
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This made me laugh: “Knocking down somebody’s home is not a simple matter, although we use professional social workers to help.” – Tsang Cheung-chuen, Assistant Director of Buildings I wonder how they help? Maybe they keep a large sledgehammer in the office for just such an occasion, or perhaps they are trained to use wrecking balls…
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I suppose that by definition any attempt to list the 10 Biggest Computer Flops of all time is probably doomed to failure. The very fact that something can be remembered means that it made an impact – the real failures are probably the ones that we can’t remember. Even given that problem, this is an…
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Well, it seems that Oasis finally got their inaugural flight to London off the ground, almost exactly 24 hours late. Not a good start, but at least everyone knows about the company now! What amuses me about this is that everyone seems to have fallen for the ‘budget airline” angle. It’s all very well to…
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It never ceases to amaze me the way that contestants on The Apprentice "over-think" the tasks they are given. The classic example was when they were asked to promote a product in a sports store and one team put on a great event but actually reduced the sales of the product compared to a normal…
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At the beginning of the month, both the SCMP and The Standard ran stories about Oasis Hong Kong Airlines not having received government approval to operate (see earlier post). The Standard was particularly alarmist, quoting a government spokesman as saying that it might take years. However, the company appeared to be optimistic, and it seems…
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The BBC had a story last week about the Beijing authorities efforts to improve the quality of English (Beijing stamps out poor English) and a follow-up with some examples sent in by readers (Signs in ‘Chinglish’). This is indeed a rich vein of comedy, but one that is fraught with difficulties. So I try to…
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I have now got round to reading Senator Inhofe’s speech about how global warming is all a hoax perpetrated by self-interested scientists and the media. Before I get to that, though, I have been reading New Scientist magazine: "Further global warming of 1 °C defines a critical threshold. Beyond that we will likely see changes…
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Earlier this week Henry Tang said that the government would consider introducing some exemptions from GST (Tang unveils sales levy concessions – subscription required): On the public’s call for daily necessities to be exempted from a GST, Mr Tang said he would consider exemptions on public transport, medical fees, and primary and secondary school fees. The…
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