Month: Sep 2014
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I should have known better – I had read the terrible reviews of Windows 8. But Microsoft had responded to the criticism and improved the user interface in 8.1, hadn’t they? Well, up to a point. Or to put it another way: not really – they still think they know best. I have been using…
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Mike Rowse seems to be a rare dose of common sense on the opinion pages of the SCMP, and today his subject is the craziness that descends on the city when there’s a bit of rain and some strong winds: T8 typhoon signal is no holiday Joy at time off thanks to weather is misguided…
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Feeling like a massive idiot… I went to buy a cable to connect an internal hard disk. Asked for a power cable, then I didn’t know whether it was SATA or not. Turned out that I already have the power cable and what I need is a data cable. Doh!
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Finally, finally, the BBC is offering an HD channel in Asia. Rather than a BBC HD channel, they have converted BBC Knowledge to HD (at least on PCCW’s Now TV). Watching something like Africa in HD is a totally different experience to the rather poor quality murkyvision we have had to suffer up until now…
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Kudos to Spike, who is writing his life story (I'm so Smart). I first read his old blog when he was being magnificently indiscrete about his life as a typical expat in Hong Kong – without taking much effort to disguise his identity. That had to stop, but I seem to recall that for a…
Ordinary Gweilo 