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Month: Nov 2006

  • Just call me yellow

    Yesterday I was watching an episode from towards the end of series three of Six Feet Under, and Nate was complaining that Lisa (his wife) always played the Wiggles to their baby daughter – not that I can ever recall hearing the singing of the improbably cheerful Australians on any previous episode in this series of the show.  Then…

  • Stupid

    I came across this truly terrible website from Page One.  Then I read this (from the BBC) about websites being user-friendly (or not): Web usability consultants Webcredible assessed the websites of 20 of the UK’s most popular High Street retailers. It cited confusing search results, poor navigation and complicated checkout procedures as the worst mistakes.…

  • The Curious Diary of Mr Jam.

    I have just discovered that Nury Vittachi has a blog (The Curious Diary of Mr Jam).  Quite an interesting read, and some of it is even informative.

  • Pleasant surprise

    I don’t have very high expectations when it comes to food on board a plane (well, certainly not in Economy, which is where I usually end up), so when I get something good it is worth mentioning. My pleasant surprise was Cathay Pacific’s Paneer with rice.   Cubes of Paneer (Indian restaurants usually call it "Indian…

  • No deal

    I see that my estimable colleague Fumier QC has beaten me to the punch in reviewing the local version of Deal or No Deal.  I watched a few minutes of it last Sunday night, and although I have never seen the British version (which stars the formerly ubiquitous Noel Edmonds) it only took a few…

  • Classified PR – Cheese shop

    In the interests of research I have visited the new cheese shop in Central, which is housed in Classified PR It's in a slightly out-of-the-way location at the far end of Hollywood Road, but they have created a special humidity-controlled room for the cheese so that it does not dry out (although most people keep…

  • Hong Kong Phooey v2

    Way back when, there was quite an entertaining spat on here concerning a blog called Hong Kong Phooey that briefly burst into life and then disappeared again.  I suppose that it was inevitable that someone would use the same name again, and so here is the second incarnation of Hong Kong Phooey.  A crowd-pleasing mix…

  • Let me in, I’m an Executive!

    As you may have noticed, I find the letter column in the SCMP a great source of amusement.  This letter was published yesterday: Racial discrimination It happened again! Last Sunday, I went shopping in Central with a Filipina friend who is a sales and marketing executive for a satellite television service company in Hong Kong. At…

  • Good Evans

    It seems a long time ago that Nury Vittachi was writing the mildly satirical Lai See column in the SCMP.  As you may recall, Nury felt that he had been ‘sacked’ for political reasons, and doubted the official line from the paper that it was simply time for a change.  The problem for the SCMP was that the column was handed over to a succession of…

  • You’re so vain

    The problem with the final task in The Apprentice is that by this stage we (normally) already know who’s going to win, and it’s quite a challenge for that person to make such a big mess that it makes any difference. Tana did manage it in series three – she looked the most likely winner…