by Tom | Oct 30, 2013 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
Walking from a friend’s house on the Peak to the Peak Bus Station, I was asked for directions in Cantonese by a taxi driver. And I responded on my terrible taxi Cantonese. And got it right (checked with Google Maps before he was out of sight). Later, I managed...
by Tom | Sep 22, 2013 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
Rearranged earlier flight from Taipei, check. Beef noodle breakfast:awesome, check. Surprisingly calm flight back to HK given we flew around a typhoon, although no service thanks to turbulence, check. Plenty of everything other than Chinese greens in the supermarket,...
by Tom | Aug 19, 2013 | Personal, Reading
The UK detained Glen Greenwald's partner (under the terrorism act: no explanation, no lawyer) while in transit through London to ask him about the NSA revelations. Disgraceful.
by Tom | Aug 18, 2013 | Personal, Reading
A must-read Matt Taibbi on the horrific actions the US government has taken to protect the student loans industry (which is now essentially nationalised). No requirement to disclose full APR, no ability to declare bankruptcy, garnishing disability payments. Horrible,...
by Tom | Aug 16, 2013 | Personal, Reading
If you send a message to an electronic service, the service has to process and often store the message. You might value the processing enough to pay for it, e.g. to scan for spam, allow full-text indexing, back up your local information. If you don’t like what...
by Tom | Jul 5, 2013 | Personal, Reading
That’s what a tennis match should be. Respect.
