18 - Something new - planning ahead July already - how is 2022 going for you - maybe time for a mid year review? How do you like the new theme on the website - it ought to make the latest articles easier to find and you can more easily look back over the archive and find
17 - Priorities and summer reading Currently I am back in Northern Ireland for family reasons - putting first things first - recall our discussion back in Issue 13. I am taking an extended period off work to focus on some personal priorities and personal projects. What are your priorities for the coming months? Recall Steve
report from iron mountain 16 - Stop fighting! No one can be told what The Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. Just a short one this week - I have been really busy with work and am now starting a few weeks off. Still on location at the moment. Hope to be getting back into
15 - On Location... Palma de Mallorca I was on vacation this week - so we headed down to Palma de Mallorca last Sunday. It was a full day of travelling and as things go these days it was fairly smooth. First impressions of Palma are really positive. We are staying right in the center of town,
14 - Get Ready - Phoenix is an easy option... Recently, quite a few people have been asking me about Bitcoin and how to get started with it practically - in real life. I put this summary together to explain the most important things that you need to know and I try to answer the most common questions. Hopefully you
consent of the governed 13 - Choices and Decisions - who makes yours? I have been really busy this week with work - albeit back in Madeira - so I had little time to read or do much other than work. In the coming weeks I should have more time - I am taking a few weeks off work and have quite a
12 - Another day, another airport again This past week I have been very busy in Holywood - just outside Belfast, Northern Ireland with a lot to do on top of my day-job! It was an unplanned trip but mission accomplished and we are off on the road again. I am writing this on my 3h30 Ryanair
isaiah 11 - On Location... Vacation at last! Issue 11 already - I will be including numbers going forward to make past letters easier to find and refer to. The past two weeks I have been on vacation - my first real vacation is a couple of years. Monday I am back to work for a bit. I
10 - On Location - in Madeira April already and we are still refugees from the madness in HK. During March I had quite a few family matters that took priority and I also needed to work for two weeks. April is a similar schedule but we flew to Madeira for a change of scene and so
09 - On Location... Currently, and for the last three weeks, I am in Belfast. With the situation in HK becoming ever more crazy by the day we took the opportunity to escape from Hong Kong for a bit - I escaped with V and 3 suitcases. I also have some family matters that
economist 08 - How fed up are you? Let's start with some important foundational thinking - based on natural law. Money should be separate from the State - if not history shows that governments and human greed will always take over and manipulate the system in their favour and the expense of their populations. For extensive
belfast says no 07 - Time to Wake Up Folks - it really is time to wake up. How many more wars do we need? War on the Virus, War on Terror, War in Afghanistan, War in the Middle East, War in Vietnam - now War in Ukraine and who knows where else? I grew up in Belfast in
Happy new year 06 - Welcome to 2022 Still pleasant weather in HK but it is cooling down and in a few days we will likely shift in to the cold and cloudy January/February that is HK winter. A shorter update from me this week as I think the more important things are in the links below.
anniversary 05 - Ten years on - so far, so good! I remember taking this picture on the train from the airport into HK on my first morning after the overnight flight from Brussels via Zurich. Somehow I had expected that there might be a party on the plane since we flew over the end of the year, but...nothing! Also
calyxos 04 - Christmas in Hong Kong Season's greetings from Hong Kong - as we approach the end of the year I am taking a few days off work (mostly) - so I have a bit more time for some personal projects and interests. We will be island hopping again/still this week! Considering the
backup 03 - Welcome to the Matrix! (12-22-21) Something of a computer-centric update this week, ahead of Christmas. Responding to several folks asking about this and with the continual drumbeat of new threats (echoes of 1984?) and recurring theft of personal and business data, you might find it useful to have some suggestions from many years of
WEF 02 - Sai Kung this week Only in HK can you go golfing on a remote island, come back in the evening, leave your golf clubs at the quay, go for dinner and pick them up on the way home! We spent most of the last week up in Sai Kung, way up in the North
HK - Hong Kong 01 - A few updates from Hong Kong Reading this week * Blocksize War - Bitcoin’s blocksize war was waged from August 2015 to November 2017. On the surface, the battle was about the amount of data allowed in each bitcoin block, however it exposed much deeper issues, such as who controls bitcoin’s protocol rules. It is
HK - Hong Kong 00 - Welcome to my blog Loosely inspired by Alistair Cooke's Letter from America, this is where it all begins. In the weeks and months ahead my intention is to gather my thoughts and share things that I find interesting and maybe good to know. I will be pulling from many sources and I
