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 2008
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More wise words on the Interweb from SCMP readers (subscription required): First, I suggest the government should set up an authority to monitor the internet. It should consist of people from various occupations, such as social workers, teachers and psychologists. Through the experience they have accumulated in their respective professions, they can judge whether information…
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The Standard reports that “a pay tv operator” wants to be allowed to re-transmit the digital channels on its network: If successful, the change would be a boon for i-CABLE Communications’ Cable TV service and PCCW’s Now TV, essentially expanding their content offerings for free and allowing their subscribers to watch the Olympics in digital…
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Amazingly, the “nude photos scandal” is still front page news in Hong Kong newspapers. The latest non-news is that Edison Chen has admitted he did take the photographs, and also announced that he will quit showbusiness “indefinitely”. Beats me how that is worth more than a few paragraphs in a gossip column, but the SCMP…
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It’s progress of a sort, but it’s no use to those us who live outside the UK. The BBC is going to start selling downloads of shows through the UK iTunes store. Which means that if you forgot to watch a show, and you forgot to record it, and you couldn’t be bothered to watch…
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Today the Hong Kong Observatory lowered the “cold weather warning” that has been in force for more than 3 weeks. Apparently that isn’t quite a record, as this warning was in place for 27 days in 1968, but normally it’s only in force for 2-3 days. In the past I have been rather scornful about…
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The problem with Talkback (the SCMP’s 2nd letter column) is that they clearly don’t have enough material, and so they will print almost anything, however muddled or irrelevant. Yesterday there was a marvellous example on the subject of the dodgy photos “scandal”: The widespread distribution on the internet of immodest photos of celebrities has generated…
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The funniest story of the moment has to be the one about appearance on the Interweb of some, er, candid photographs featuring several Hong Kong pop stars. It’s even made it to The Guardian (Film star sex scandal causes internet storm in China), but here’s the SCMP: The photos that appeared on the internet last…
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Has the Premier League gone mad? They have apparently decided that what they really need is an extra 10 extra games added to the season, and to play them overseas in January (Top clubs consider overseas games): At a meeting in London on Thursday, all 20 [Premier League] clubs agreed to explore a proposal to…
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Nothing to add really…
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Spike’s column in BC Magazine this week muses on one possible reason why HD-DVD & Blu-Ray have failed to take off: And, to be honest, my suspicions are that the general public either doesn’t give a shit about the increased quality offered by HD DVDs or doesn’t want to invest the money in new players,…
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