HK → UK → US → ?
Tonight’s Prison Break cliffhanger was as good a cliffhanger as I’ve seen on TV. Though the ending was a bit obvious 20 minutes before the end but it was still great. Can’t wait till next March to see what happen next!
At least 24 will be back in just over a month time.
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I’ve forgotten how much external sound my Shure E3c blocks out until I walked to work this morning using the standard Apple white headphones. With the Shure, the only sound I hear in the busy Manhattan street is the rumbling of the bus/truck engines. But with the Apple headphones, I can almost hear the conversation from across the street! So to compensate I have to crank the volume up from 50% (for my Shure) to at least 70% (for Apple headphones). Even then not all the noise are blocked.
I know the idea of introducing a identity card in the UK is very controversial but pretending that Hong Kong only has recently been issuing ID card to the residents is re-writing history!
The Smart ID card referred in the BBC article is a new card with digital certificate, and that enable it to be used with post office and other commercial outlets. However, the permanent ID card has been issued by the British Government in Hong Kong since 1950s(?) and every Hong Kong residents are required to carry it at all time. I had (still have?) one since I was around 8 and had lost and replaced it twice. In fact, a number ‘2’ is appended to the end of my ID card number to indicate that. I have used this permanent ID card for immigration point at the Hong Kong airport many times in the last decade so this is not new either!
So the British Government please stop pretending that you have no prior experience in the subject of ID card, or how to efficiently issue and maintain 6+ million ID cards. Just ask your colleagues at the Foreign Office.
Of course the British Government won’t have any experience in the privacy issue in Hong Kong since that was hardly a consideration when ID card was introduced there all those years ago!
Although it took awhile, I’ve finally moved all the photos from TypePad to my Flickr account this evening. Hopefully this will help relief some of TypePad’s load 🙂 All that remain now is for me to go through all the posts and repair broken links.
Can someone call the man in white coat please and take Pat Robertson & Bill O’Reilly (second last item of the page) away?
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Lost in Colonisation 