by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal, Reading
Google Voice just charged me (USD) $0.40 for 30 minutes of calls to landlines to check that my London-based family was OK (answer: yes). Great value. If I had called mobiles, it would have cost $2.00. Again, great value. Easy to set up and only asks for a $10 credit...
by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Hong Kong / China
Because it was there.
by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Hong Kong / China
I’m not sure how pleased she’d be with this one…
by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Business, Hong Kong / China, Reading
Tencent: March of the Penguins. Fascinating summary of one of the major Chinese social networking and gaming platforms. Unbelievable scale (2.3m concurrent gamers at peak times) and some less-well-known VCs involved. I still can’t understand why there is this...
by Tom | Aug 8, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
To the disbelievers, here’s a full on shot from a camera rather than my phone, and an attempt to show their size. The camera has focused on Wiffy’s hand, which is at least a few feet away from the spider on the right. You can read more on HK’s...
by Tom | Aug 7, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
On the way too the first beach and between the first and second, we walked through forests full of Giant Golden Orb Weaving spiders. At my head height. Wow. They are large! One for Philippa and Maddie, I think.
