by Tom | Apr 25, 2013 | Hong Kong / China, View
Agreed, these are brilliant photos of HK. Vertical Horizon Amazing Photos of HK Skyscrapers by Romain Jacquet-Lagreze | Hong Wrong Hong Kong Expat Blog.
by Tom | Apr 24, 2013 | Google+
Infinitely preferable to the gym. First sunny day for a swim instead. #totrblog #hkproblems
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 21, 2013 | Google+
Excellent factoid. It has snowed in Hong Kong. Two of the four recorded days were at the top of HK's highest mountain (957m), so less surprising, but the east side of HK island (Cape Collinson) does surprise me. #totrblog Tom Voute originally shared this post:...
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...
by Tom | Apr 18, 2013 | Business, Tech
I like the idea of bitcoin, but I have to agree that it feels crazily bubbly. Also, no sensible government would let a uncontrolled currency loose on the world. The Bitcoin bubble, at $1 billion, is tiny compared to those that burst in 2000 and 2008. Nevertheless,...
by Tom | Apr 11, 2013 | Reading, Tech
Crikey, I’m glad Wiffy was in the air before I read this. No wonder plane manufacturers are so dodgy about wireless devices, and I’m glad they are. Summary: you can misuse some on-plane systems to install an attack framework and then, so long as AutoPilot...
by Tom | Apr 11, 2013 | Business, Reading
This looks like an excellent idea: save proper amounts of money on transfers. Now if only they did HK$. Send Money Abroad | Cheap Money Transfers From TransferWise.
