Ordinary Gweilo

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Month: May 2007

  • Limited offer

    In February, I noted that Now Broadband TV (owned by PCCW) were offering 5 months free on their Mega Sports Pack if you committed to an 18 month contract.  I hestitated (well, it’s what I’m best at), first deciding to wait till the last day and then deciding to wait and see if the offer…

  • On the high seas

    Sunday’s SCMP had a story about CD Wow (subscription required): A group of British record companies is suing a Hong Kong firm for £41.13 million (HK$638 million) in royalties it was ordered to pay by an English court. The companies are asking for the enforcement of a settlement agreement with Music Trading Online (HK), which…

  • Oligopoly

    Recently, I have become rather bad at reading Hong Kong blogs.  Mainly it’s sheer laziness, but the problem is that there are just too many of them, and having got them all set up in an RSS reader it’s all too easy to check half a dozen and overlook the rest. Which is a pity,…

  • He is a quitter after all

    Donald Trump was not impressed when one contestant on Series 6 announced that he wanted to quit rather than hang around and probably get fired.  Apparently Trump doesn’t like quitters. Except that when NBC’s Autumn schedule was announced and The Apprentice was nowhere to be seen, Donald Trump quit the show before he could be…

  • Independent but shallow

    The Guardian has a story about Jimmy Lai (The voice of Hong Kong – free registration required): His business products are easy to find on the streets – the Chinese-language Apple Daily newspaper, the weekly Next Magazine, and stablemates Easy Finder and Sudden Weekly. Jimmy Lai is that rare character in the wealthy Asian business…

  • Not ready

    Hong Kong is not ready for democracy, according to the chairman of the DAB (Fury at DAB chief’s Tiananmen tirade – subscription required): Hong Kong will not be ready for universal suffrage until around 2022 because the people lack national identity and many still believe there was a massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989, the…

  • Time to get the sweaters out

    Yes, it’s that time of year again when you need to dress up warm – when you’re in the office: Today in Hong Kong, the temperature reached about 30 degrees Celsius. Inside our Central office, I wore a woollen sweater to keep warm. The aircon thermostats were turned down in some places as low as…

  • The wrong sort of cheese

    In week 7 of The Apprentice (the Alan Sugar one), hapless Adam was desperately seeking Nigella seeds.  I had no idea about Nigella seeds either, but Google does.  Apparently it is against the rules to use the Internet, but surely if you called someone you know who has a computer, they could check and give…

  • Hong Kong Diaries

    Hello to Hong Kong Diaries, which is in the fine tradition of blogs by foreigners coming over to Hong Kong and being delighted and horrified all at the same time.  We’re all so polite, apparently. I have removed Hotel Splendide as it seems to be closed for renovation.

  • Deeply, deeply sorry

    Go to Pandora, and you will be greeted with this rather depressing message: Dear Pandora Visitor, We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for most listeners located outside of the U.S. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of…