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: Jul 2010
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Just watching The Hotel Inspector on BBC Lifestyle, and I was puzzling over what had been blurred out. BBC Lifestyle has been known to blur out all manner of fairly innocuous things lest they offend sensitive viewers. Turns out that it was a dalek (unblurred image shown right)… It did seem odd that there were…
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Am I the only person in Hong Kong who is happy that Tropical Storm Chathu is apparently heading away from here? Earlier today everyone else seemed to be eagerly anticipating a day off on Thursday on the assumption that the Observatory would raise the #8 signal. Except that it now seems rather unlikely to happen,…
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The Prudential/AIA saga continues – last week the chairman of AIG quit, and now AIA has replaced its CEO. Mark Wilson was quoted by the FT as saying that he would quit if Prudential acquired AIA, though he probably knew he would have the decision made for him if the deal had gone through. But…
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So there I was in the usual throng of people waiting to get on the plane. A middle-aged man was trying to get past me, and became upset when I didn’t immediately get out of his way. He spoke. “Typically, I like to be with my children”. I looked around for a distraught seven year-old,…
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I was recently asked what “invaluable” means. Simple enough, but also rather puzzling when you consider that in+valuable should mean not valuable, as in words such as inconsistent and inexact. The explanation is that valuable used to mean something that you could value (in contrast to something that is impossible to value, or priceless). So…
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What is it with people who design upgrades to software? I was prompted to ”upgrade” my Nokia PC Suite to Ovi. This brilliantly designed piece of software thinks that I want to copy all the music and podcasts from my PC to my mobile phone. I don’t. And there isn’t space. Never mind, it just goes ahead…
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Why does the SCMP publish a letter from someone living in South Africa about US domestic politics? Reject Kagan US Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s ascendancy to the Supreme Court should be emphatically rejected. Kagan has not yet had time to develop a mature philosophy of judging. People need to know of Kagan’s agenda-driven approach to…
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