by Tom | Aug 30, 2012 | Government, Hong Kong / China, Tech
Kites untether China’s grip on air pollution data. Nice use of simple technology to route around government interference. People have pollution monitors in their office windows in Hong Kong: no kites needed as yet.
by Tom | Aug 30, 2012 | Business
How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo in Vanity Fair demolishes the idea of the stack rank for intelligent tasks. The corporate in-fighting that the bottom-10%-out approach created is breathtaking. On the meat of the article, it is true that MS has been outpaced by Apple in the...
by Tom | Aug 30, 2012 | Reading
eReaderIQ is a nice service to track the price of Kindle items to see when they start to drop from their launch price. Often we are too impatient to read a book to wait, but maybe now it is automated… There’s a US version as well.
by Tom | Aug 30, 2012 | Science
Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements is brilliant. Snopes for supplements. If you ever hear people pushing a particular supplement for an ailment, you can have a look to see if the evidence supports it or not.
by Tom | Aug 29, 2012 | Google+
Classic HK fifty years of history view from the 4th floor Sky Garden in Hysan Place. Can't quite see our gaff, but you can see most of the other towers (orange ones behind the white, central one, behind the fifties and sixties tenement blocks).
by Tom | Aug 29, 2012 | Google+
That's as close as I need to get to 50 shades. Glorious.
by Tom | Aug 23, 2012 | Google+
We should get locked out of our room more often. Martini and whisky sour to the rescue. Polynesia
by Tom | Aug 22, 2012 | Google+
Good Starbucks story.Much as I don't like them, Starbies is doing what appears to be a good thing in Hong Kong. Recycling grounds, etc, to a really useful precursor.a) thanks to Warner for the link and b) in HK only at present,...
by Tom | Aug 17, 2012 | Google+
Volcanic coral lagoon, Pacific Ocean and Taha'a in the distance. Post-breakfast constitutional.
by Tom | Aug 15, 2012 | Google+
Doing our best to remember the Lympics. Our hotel in Tahiti had mascot-inspired cocktails. The Mandeville was so good I had two.Today's amazingness? So far split between doing donuts in a kayak while playing with a Manta ray and seeing a pod of dolphins feeding...
