Month: Aug 2012
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Not a big surprise. It was an interesting concept, but the combination of being known as a budget airline (and one that is owned by a PRC company) and flying to Gatwick (rather than Heathrow) appears not to have been a winner. Hong Kong Airlines abandons Gatwick London's business-class-only link to Hong Kong is to…
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The price of Kindle books continues to baffle. There are plenty of bargains, but an equal number of titles that seem hugely over-priced. If you want to know when the prices do drop, then eReaderIQ is a useful service. You enter the Amazon ASIN code and either a target price or a price drop and…
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Interesting article in Vanity Fair about Microsoft’s problems. What I hadn’t previously realized was that they use the stupid “stack ranking” system. Maybe it worked well at GE in Jack Welch’s days - it’s possible that firing 10% of employees every year was a smart strategy for them – but whoever thought that was the…
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That’s one weird track for a typhoon – looks as if someone has been scribbling all over a map Apparently the problem is another storm (Bolaven) in the same area.
Ordinary Gweilo 