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Hong Kong – day 3

Thursday July 31st, 2003 Leave a Comment

Yesterday we started the day at Oliver’s Super Sandwiches across the road from the hotel for breakfast. The “light breakfast”: cornflakes, fruit salad, toast, orange juice – all for HKD$25 each … a far cry from the HKD$165 for the buffet breakfast at the hotel. Unfortunately this was not really enough to feed me for … [Read More »]

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Lonely lowlights

Thursday July 31st, 2003 Leave a Comment

Lonely Planet’s guide to Hong Kong (condensed) makes the following comments about the “lowlights” of Hong Kong (after discussing the highlights). Hong Kong is not the easiest place to bumble around. For a start, no one here mooches: they’re all hurrying with intent in their eyes. And it’s an elbows-out, unapologetic kind of hustle. The … [Read More »]

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MTR

Thursday July 31st, 2003 Leave a Comment

Hong Kong’s MTR (or Mass Transit Railway, I think) is one impressive piece of infrastructure. We are staying in Causeway Bay, and in the 3 days we have been here so far, have done a dozen or so trips between here and Wan Chai, Admiralty, Central, Tsim Sha Tsui and Jordan … and this is … [Read More »]

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Blog from the peak

Thursday July 31st, 2003 Leave a Comment

Just thought I’d take advantage of the free internet connection here at the Pacific Coffee Company coffee lounge at Victoria Peak in Hong Kong. We caught the tram up earlier this morning, and after taking in the sights from the various viewing platforms, we went for an hour long stroll around the peak. Some really … [Read More »]

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GPRS

Tuesday July 29th, 2003 1 Comment

I’ve been thinking for a while about the best way to provide almost-always connection to the internet for my laptop. There are times I could be more productive if I had an internet connection – such as sitting in a cab, on a train, in someone elses office, and most importantly, when doing a demo … [Read More »]

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