a present after a 12hr flight...

...142 new emails.

:-/

the dark side

so i've finally decided to move over to the dark side and get a mac...

after using it for a few hours my initial thoughts are:
- apple makes great hardware- a quality feel and easy to set up
- fantastic display
- much less clutter than with my previous hp desktop
- moving itunes from one computer to another is a huge pain- still haven't figured out how to move the library without losing all of my album artwork and tags
- the new version of parallels is much better- easy to move files back and forth to osx

inflight crash

the inflight entertainment system crashed during a flight i took a couple of months ago. as it was rebooting i couldn't help but wonder if the screens in the cockpit were rebooting too!

mined islands

to the south and east of hong kong lies the wanshan archipelago. flying in and out of hong kong the one thing that is quite noticeable about the islands is how extensively they have been mined. in some cases almost all of the smaller islands is gone.

this particular island, located south of lantau, has a section in the center part of the island missing.

more than half of this island has been mined. click on the thumbnails for larger versions.

i've done a bit of searching and what i've found in english doesn't mentioned mining on these islands- it mentions fishing and tourism. mining tourists, perhaps!