New base: Hongkong

For the coming six months I live, report, create and procrastinate in my other hometown Hongkong. The differences between the country I have grown up in and the country I’ve grown onto are so mindboggingly vast that it’s hard to imagine they’re both on the same planet. I will already miss the sheer convenience of Hongkong once we are moving back to the slow-paced Legoland: The Netherlands. I will write more on this later: first I am going to celebrate the fact that my application for a Hongkong ID card came through.

Sep 29, 2009 | Comments Off

Google logo. lol wut?

Today on 5th of September 2009, Google’s homepage features a doodle which is not unusual. This time however, it’s managed to baffle most of us. Hitherto when Google placed an alteration of their logo, it’s relatively simple to trace back the reason (independence of Korea, Father’s Day, and so on). This time however, the UFO abducting the O leaves us completely stumped. Clicking the logo prompts the search engine to search for ‘unexplained phenomena’. Is it X-Files Day? National Abduction Day?

Google communicated a coded message on Twitter 1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19 which reportedly means “All your O are belong to us.” A common reference to the poorly translated Sega Megadrive game Zero Wing. Let’s see how this story unfolds.

Sep 05, 2009 | 2 Comments »