Author Archives: Yan Sham-Shackleton

Post Colonial, Post Colonial, Post Colonial Hong Kong

Awaiting a democratic Hong Kong. The other day I was in a book shop, I picked up a book called post colonial theories. I looked at it. I read through some of the ideas and put it back. This is one thing I know, which I never really mention and I guess it’s such aContinue reading “Post Colonial, Post Colonial, Post Colonial Hong Kong”

One People, Two Systems, Three Countries

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong Today, I was eating ice cream with a friend by the harbour. I showed him where the water line used to be when I was growing up and how the land we were standing on at that point all used to be water. I said, “over there too.” Pointing atContinue reading “One People, Two Systems, Three Countries”

What I didn’t Say to Martin Lee

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong. Today I bumped into Martin Lee while he was out campaigning. I shook his hands. What I wanted to say was “Thank you for speaking out all those years, thank you for so tirelessly reminding us of our rights and what we don’t have, thank you for insisting for aContinue reading “What I didn’t Say to Martin Lee”

Want YOUR song heard by The Crystal Method, Macy Gray, and the president of Universal Records?

Sometimes through all the spam I get interesting invitations to do creative stuff. This one is completely useless to me in every way because I can’t hold a note, (Thank you to all my friends and family who have patiently listenned to my singing and not wrestled the kareoke mike off me). But I knowContinue reading “Want YOUR song heard by The Crystal Method, Macy Gray, and the president of Universal Records?”

Okay David Talbot. I subscribed..

For about three years I was a Salon Premiem member, that was until they allowed for day passes to let you read the articles for free. So that was what I was doing. ACLU, Audi, the Sierra Club happily paid Salon a bit of money everytime I clicked on. But David Talbot the editor isContinue reading “Okay David Talbot. I subscribed..”

Du Daobin’s sentence confirmed on appeal

Du Daobin’s sentence confirmed on appeal Reporters Without Borders protested today against the recent confirmationnof a three-year prison sentence suspended for four years imposed on cyber-dissident Du Daobin on 11 June. “Placing him under house arrest for that time is a subtle punishment because he risks being thrown in jail if he starts criticising theContinue reading “Du Daobin’s sentence confirmed on appeal”

Spyware Problems Version 2

Whatever this thing is. It’s really nasty. Neither Ad-ware, Search and Destroy and any other spyware busting program out there works on it. Although I have swapped with Mozilla, it is able to open new tabs in that, as well as automatically opens my IE. It’s called: pwnage Clans And hacks In order to getContinue reading “Spyware Problems Version 2”

HELP! My computer has a malignant Spyware

Hi. Can anyone help? My computer has been infected with an extremely malignant spyware. I can hardly use it, without it crashing, and even when I am clicking onto yahoo or here I end up on a number of ad websites. If I can connect to sites at all without coming against the 404 error.Continue reading “HELP! My computer has a malignant Spyware”

News: Google and Yahoo Censors Search in China

It’s not just google and Yahoo! that has helped China censor news, other US companies such as Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Nortel Networks, Bay Networks, Inc. and Websense have done so too. Google – Yahoo market battle threatens freedom of _expression Reporters Without Borders calls on US officials to impose code of conduct onContinue reading “News: Google and Yahoo Censors Search in China”