by Tom | May 24, 2013 | Reading
Just do good and we’ll find a meeting point One of the first sensible statements I’ve heard from a Pope in a long time. I hope he isn’t softening us up before a hammer blow on something else. via Pope Francis: Being an atheist is alright as long as...
by Tom | May 21, 2013 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
Interesting perspective on HK racing. We were away this weekend so didn’t see any racing news, but I don’t think much was made of the HK wins in Singapore here....
by Tom | Apr 24, 2013 | Reading
I love that the Oldest European Medieval Cookbook has been found dating back to 1140. Even more so that its recipes seem to have lasted the test of time. Not so much the news that a 1999 McDonalds burger has not changed. Shudder.
by Tom | Apr 24, 2013 | Hong Kong / China, Reading, View
Two slightly different approaches to horror for today’s reading. List of “haunted” houses in Hong Kong (based on suicides and unnatural deaths in apartments: prices can be significantly lower as it is bad feng shui to buy a hung1...
by Tom | Apr 19, 2013 | Reading, Tech
A quite marvellous speech to close SXSW. Worth reading, even if you don’t get the geek humour bits. If more computation, and more networking, was going to make the world prosperous, we’d be living in a prosperous world. And we’re not. Obviously we’re...
by Tom | Apr 19, 2013 | Reading
Not quite safe for work, but extraordinary. Shocking that the New York Post has been so catastrophically wrong and misguided in its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. Delightful that Gawker has made such a stand against it. Sadly the result will no doubt be law...
