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A New Mobile Phone?

December 27th, 2003 · Comments Off

I have been looking into getting one of those new mobile phones which takes photos and movies. I looked at the Nokia 6600, which were nearly perfect except one show-stopper.
The Nokia 7600 is cute, and at HK$3,888 from Broadways, one would expect the latest offering from Nokia to be a reasonable smartphone. After a bit [...]

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Tags: Tools for Work

Mad Cow Disease

December 27th, 2003 · 1 Comment

Weird diseases everywhere, and there is no escape.
Hong Kong Red Cross would not accept my blood donation. Is my brain turing into sponge?

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Tags: MLP

The Economists on Coffee-houses

December 27th, 2003 · Comments Off

Article.
The thing is, it is quite usual to walk into a pub and down a couple of pints (well, obviously not if one needs to get back to work), which means one spends quite considerable time there. Althou I suppose you could, but it just doesn’t seem right to me to go to your local [...]

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Tags: Food and Drinks

HSBC is a Negative Impact on Hong Kong Productivity

December 27th, 2003 · 1 Comment

I needed to desposit some money into a HSBC account on 24/12 in Central. The HSBC branch at the Exchange Square was small and packed. The one in China Building is flipping massive, but is only for f*cking Prestige Accounts. I waited in the queue at the HSBC Building for about 40 minutes. Only about [...]

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Tags: Social Restructuring

Revolving Window vs Annual Diary

December 27th, 2003 · 1 Comment

Right now this weblog displays entries for the last 12 months. If I don’t change anything, in a few days it will be showing entries from 1/2004 to 2/2003.
I have been considering whether to break up the weblog, i.e. generate a static one for the year 2003, and start afresh from 2004 beginning w/ just [...]

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