by Tom | Jul 31, 2012 | Google+
Could other organisations take the lead in credit creation?Fascinating look at the state of the banks, how they got there and the start of some thinking about what next.NB the chart is Goldman Sachs value at risk for the last decade, showing that they tripled this...
by Tom | Jul 29, 2012 | Google+
Thanks be for VPNs.I pay $9 a month for our VPN. It allows me to view the Olympics on iPlayer for that payment.I pay more than $90 per month for TV in HK, none of which is showing anything I want to watch. Olympics is on cable which we can't get in our building....
by Tom | Jul 28, 2012 | Google+
NYT nails the brilliant Olympics opening ceremony."With its hilariously quirky Olympic opening ceremony, a wild jumble of the celebratory and the fanciful; the conventional and the eccentric; and the frankly off-the-wall, Britain presented itself to the world...
by Tom | Jul 28, 2012 | Google+
#romneyshambles still makes me snort every time I see it. Respect to TTOI.
by Tom | Jul 27, 2012 | Google+
Rainstorms in HK. Interesting comparison of the flood awareness and preparation in Hong Kong and Beijing. The need for a population who will respond to warnings alongside a good warning system is key. Since our Monday typhoon Vicente, we’ve had rain, rain and...
by Tom | Jul 27, 2012 | Google+
Who says there is no culture in HK? Can't believe we missed this.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179440/Flexibly-flattened-Indian-roller-skater-11-breaks-world-record-limbos-poles-just-inches-ground.html
by Tom | Jul 26, 2012 | Google+
Great HK sunset.Must pop down to the HKCEC on a clear evening one time. another sunset… (i) – Cityscape & Urban Photos – one day in my life Image of another sunset… (i) from the cityscape & urban photos of hugo poon.
by Tom | Jul 26, 2012 | Google+
When poetry can kill.Fascinating talk by Craig Venter on the current state of the digital age of biology. They encoded quotes into synthetic DNA and were concerned that some of them could be fatal to the new life they were attempting to create.Awe-inspiring thought:...
by Tom | Jul 26, 2012 | Google+
Gun homicide in Japan.11 people died from fiream-related homicide in 2008 in the whole of Japan . It was a national scandal that the number was so high. There were 12,000 in the US in the same year.That's the cost of the US form of gun ownership, pure and...
by Tom | Jul 25, 2012 | Google+
Hong Kong in the 70s. Groovy, baby.Lots more good stuff in the full reel these are selected from.http://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/collections/72157600006939910/ What Hong Kong Looked Like 40 Years Ago The Pearl of the Orient needed some polishing.
