by Tom | May 5, 2011 | Reading
Brilliant Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
by Tom | May 5, 2011 | Business, Personal
A valid point: corporate crime and corruption is probably worse in the developed than in the developing world, and there are no governments that can afford to take this issue on. A change in the way we elect politicians seems to be the only way forward. Let’s...
by Tom | May 5, 2011 | Tech
Top Five Disruptive Search Engines showcases some new thinking in search. It’s always fun to look at new things, but none of these hits many spots for me. Clearly Google isn’t perfect, but improving on it has to be a key success factor for any new search...
by Tom | May 5, 2011 | Personal
We registered for overseas voting about a month ago, just after we found our apartment. The polling cards turned up at our redirection service last week, too late to get them to HK and back. This will be the first time I haven’t voted since I was eighteen. And...
by Tom | May 4, 2011 | Reading
The Best Obnoxious Responses To Misspellings On Facebook is very much along the lines of Damn You Autocorrect, but without aggressive spelling correction to blame. Thanks to the FB crew for the link....
by Tom | Apr 30, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
I came out of the public changing rooms on Stanley Beach and thought “I’m a bit chilly”. The Stanley Beach clock said 27°. Egads.
by Tom | Apr 30, 2011 | Reading
As Graham says, a lovely article about that wedding http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8484650/Royal-wedding-a-touch-of-class-and-a-cavalcade-of-English-life.html
by Tom | Apr 30, 2011 | Tech
Signal to Noise on Twitter is a good summary from Adam Curry of what Twitter feels like when added to an RSS-based stream of information consumption. It just doesn’t fit. I find that I use Twitter and Facebook mostly on my mobile while in between other things,...
by Tom | Apr 29, 2011 | Reading
I had only seen Trump’s birther pronouncements. And laughed. Maybe I shouldn’t have. Great read from Hari in the Independent. http://tinyurl.com/6xgahl4 Nice: my auto correct suggested burger for birther.
by Tom | Apr 29, 2011 | Hong Kong / China
Letter from China: Q. & A. with Rebecca MacKinnon: Internet in China has some interesting thoughts about how other countries can help the Chinese improve their internet freedom. I’d very much like to see a checklist which looked at the list of freedoms...
