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Meyado / Meretec / MITL / Martin Young - A Cautionary Tale
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smog wrote 3 weeks ago: One of the banes of one’s life as an expat is the frequent calls from often very persistent … more →
iTunes Political Correctness Gone Mad
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smog wrote 3 months ago: This is utterly ridiculous… I just noticed that iTunes, in its wisdom, has replaced the cover … more →
The stone bleeds!
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smog wrote 6 months ago: At long last, after concerted and repeated efforts by huge numbers of their electors, and after a co … more →
Protesting the incompetence of the HK Government
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smog wrote 7 months ago: I’ve decided that someone has to start standing up and making a noise about how absurdly incom … more →
Obama on faith & values
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smog wrote 9 months ago: It is so refreshing to have a US President who isn’t under the cosh of Christian fundamentalis … more →
Ignorance is no defence
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smog wrote 10 months ago: Evidence that the UK is going “tit’s up”, part 73… Birmingham City Council h … more →
Genital Mutilation
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smog wrote 10 months ago: It is good to see from the Beeb that Denmark (my paternal ancestral home) is taking a lead and final … more →
Food & Drink labelling in Hong Kong
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smog wrote 11 months ago: My rant for the week is about both the poor requirements of food labelling in Hong Kong and the lax … more →
This scares me
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smog wrote 1 year ago: Thanks to Mat B for the videos at his site. This Palin women associates with some real fruitcakes (w … more →
This throwaway society
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smog wrote 1 year ago: Last week we had a power spike chez smog (in fact the power was out at our apartment for nearly 3 ho … more →
Free tap water
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smog wrote 1 year ago: The only sour note at the Eugene Pao gig this evening was that Grappa’s has joined the “ … more →
Pimping, Albert Yeung style
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smog wrote 1 year ago: The SCMP reports today on some of the details of the contract which Albert Yeung’s Emperor Ent … more →
Jaw droppingly ignorant remark of the week...
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smog wrote 1 year ago: … must be the one reported by The Standard from one Joseph Law, chairman of the “Hong Ko … more →
iTunes for expats in HK
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smog wrote 1 year ago: It has been a major irritant to people in HK that Apple chooses not to make its iTunes store availab … more →
Fair warning as far as I am concerned
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smog wrote 1 year ago: I find no reason at all to object to the making and publication of the following film. I do, however … more →
Hate speech or fair warning?
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smog wrote 1 year ago: There’s a big storm brewing over the film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders which apparently d … more →
Why do so many HK advertisements lie so blatantly?
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smog wrote 1 year ago: [Edit 19 March: see comments for details of clarification from the HK AF organisers, which shows tha … more →
Racist hypocrisy from Fumier
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smog wrote 1 year ago: Since I’m not going to sign up to something that I don’t need for any other purpose, I a … more →
Calming words from Professor Yuen, disappointing ones from Mr Chow
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smog wrote 1 year ago: It seems after all that some lessons are being learned from the SARS experience. Professor Yuen Kwok … more →
