I spent weeks learning SEO, backlinks and social media strategy for my last blog. The result? Five posts and serious burnout. This time I’m doing things differently - consistency over perfection, writing over optimisation.
I want to share with you the day I got made redundant and the following few days. Many people before me have been made redundant, and many others will get made redundant in the future, so what happened to me is not out of the ordinary or unusual. A lot
Thoughts about my recent visit to London with my family.
Well, I don't know. The market sucks. I'm an offshore banking and finance ex partner. I'm in a practice area that is doing poorly in Hong Kong, I don't speak Cantonese or Mandarin and I'm in a very niched sector.
For our recent summer trip to Europe we flew with Air France KLM. On our way to Europe we flew KLM, with a 4 day stopover in Amsterdam, then onto London. On the way back to Hong Kong we flew with Air France, with a layover in Paris. All flights
I have not written publicly for years. I did write publicly sporadically previously, but now I want to see if I can keep it up. Someone recently had said that we consume more than we produce and we should be looking to produce more than we consume and the best
About six months ago I tested out a product called KnowRoaming. Conclusion was I wasn't sure if this product was for me, especially with the issues I faced with my phone. KnowRoaming did contact me and looked to improve the product. I haven't tried it since
Intro Several years ago I decided to get a Google Apps (GApps) account. Back then a GApps for domains account was free. I was swayed by various articles of purchasing my own domain and having my own “unique” email address: Why You Should Use Google Apps With a Personal Domain
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Saw this on Android Police: [Deal Alert] Get Unlimited Mobile Cloud Backup From IDrive For $10 Basically you pay US$9 (price is US$10, but then you use "HAPPYCM10" code for an extra US$1 off). The deal is via StackSocial. You are supposed to get "
About four years ago I noted that Hong Kong mobile operators were offering what I thought was something quite innovative, daily data roaming rates: Hong Kong mobile daily data roaming. When you are travelling and you want to use data, rather than paying the high roaming per MB rate, you
Hong Kong has historically been known as a shopping paradise, partly due to the fact that there are not sales taxes in Hong Kong. However, very often, things are much cheaper in other countries and/or you can't get certain products in Hong Kong, but this is not
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As most people know credit card companies normally charge a fee when you use your credit card abroad (this is normally about 1% charged by Amex/Visa/Mastercard and another 0.95% charged by your credit card company) and you DON'T get charged when you use your credit
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OK, so its not happened for a few months, but just want to check what my rights are when I get stopped and searched. As a person of the slightly darker complexion I do get stopped and searched once in a while. Obviously it is not because I am brown
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Google announced some major updates to its Nexus range and the new Android version yesterday: Android: be together, not the same. Basically announced a new phone (Nexus 6), a new tablet (Nexus 9), a new streaming device (Nexus Player) and an update to Android (Lolipop). Apart from the Nexus Player,
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As many of you know all Hong Kong mobile networks charge an arbitrary monthly MTR / Tunnel / MTR fee which for some reason isn't quoted on their headline rates, but is mentioned in the small print. Why this just isn't shown as part of the phone tariff
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Can't take credit for finding out about this deal, it was from here originally: Business as Usual: LastPass Premium - Free for 1 Year Appsumo are offering LastPass premium for one year free, that's a saving of US$12. Originally it seemed the deal was available
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Back in February I wrote about a couple of options of live TV streaming: Live TV in Hong Kong, a whole new level. I had compared two boxes, the Maige box and an Android box. Since February, at home we had pretty much settled for the Maige box and it
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It's the start of May and its time to clean out some stuff that I've been meaning to sell for a while. More complete details of the stuff I'm selling, including photos, are linked below. Unless I know you well, no shipping, and everything
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A few weeks ago I had written about looking into buying a TV streaming media box. I decided against the UKTV box, basically due to ongoing costs. Through the helpful people on the Hong Kong Geoexpat forum another media box was brought to my attention, basically an Android media box.
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[Before anyone gets their knicker's in a twist, this is just a tongue and cheek view]. So people in HK are getting all hot and bothered about the sheer number of vistors coming from the PRC either as tourists, parallel goods traders, school children or hospital bed users.
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I have recently successfully applied for permanent residency in Hong Kong as a non-Chinese citizen based on residency, and thought it would be useful to go over the process I experienced. I'm not going to discuss in any great details the eligibly criteria, its all set out in
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A few years ago I ditched cable TV in Hong Kong because it was frankly not the best. Both the selection of channels and the quality of the stream was bad. I missed my UK and US TV choices (yes, I know, total first world problem). Since then I'
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Before I start, I just want to caveat that pretty much anywhere in the world consumer banking is not the best. I reckon the people in the majority of countries in the world will have a story about receiving crappy customer service and/or having to deal with double speak-bureacracy