A Prehistoric Work In Progress
I don’t know why I find this funny, but I do. It’s on the directions map at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Does this mean we’re still in the prehistoric era?
Month: April 2005
Hong Kong’s Unseen Icon
Hong Kong is a very practical city — you’ve got to be, with everyone living on top of each other — but sometimes I wonder whether it’s also an overly conservative one. For example, the other day I was very impressed at how one restaurant, which only accepts cash, brings the change in anticipation of … Read more
Kiss Me Sir, Part II
A few months back I wrote about how English gets corrupted into interesting new forms — The Asian Wall Street Journal into Asia Watching Journal, Asia Movie General or Asian World Strip Journal , ‘ excuse me sir’ into “Kiss Me Sir”, “A Skirmisher”, “Ex Skirmisher” and “Kill Me Sir”. I’ve noticed there’s another tendency, … Read more
Email For A Survey
AlienCamel, the email service that does a pretty good job of keeping out spam and viruses I’ve mentioned in the past, is offering a year’s Clean Email in return for feedback: We are looking for 50 special users who are willing to give us some feedback about our email service from time to time. In … Read more
Be a Mule? Don’t Be an Ass
This is quite a neat example of mule spam, or at least I think it is. A mule is someone who is lured, willingly or unwittingly, into moving money around for scamsters — often, but not always, phishers. Scamsters, you see, may be able to empty your bank account, but not always into an account in … Read more