The bad news is that I made a promise – to do a blog. The following email from Hemlock explains:
D – remember I told you that with Geocities being shut down, Odell, Winky, the Big Boss and I were all going to be evicted – abandoned on some waste ground on the edge of town like a sack of unwanted kittens? Well, they’ve gone and done it, a month before they said they would. And of course it’s all my fault because (wait for it) they hadn’t been billing me! To quote them…
And now I can’t get in to my own site. You promised that if the worst came to the worst you would start up a blog of your own and – a) store the entire Hemlock’s Diary archives on the site for posterity, b) do a blog on HK (to which I might contribute occasionally), and c) store the entire Hemlock’s Diary archives on the site for posterity. So – over to you.
Thus another Hong Kong blog. I can’t match Hem, so it will be serious, dry, dull, mature and inoffensive, consisting mainly of comment on the city’s political, business and social affairs. Maybe some self-indulgent reminiscences. Occasional attacks of discursiveness, perhaps.
In all fairness, he paid the setup costs.
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Bring back Hemlock, this is all very dull.
I, in fact, am Jeff Bell.
Jeff Bell
What happaned to this site? When I visited a few days ago there was a blog roll and some of Hemlock’s old stuff. Now it is strangely reduced.
Also, why can’t I comment on the other bits?
On this posting:
http://biglychee.com/blog/2009/09/24/the-best-thing-since-sliced-ice/#respond
It says “comments are closed”
If you are implying that the ice that used to be stored in Ice House Street came from Alaska, I am not sure if that was the case.
The earliest ice shipments to Hong Kong (in the 1840s) came were from Fresh Pond in Cambridge Massachusetts.
see: Weightman, Gavin. The frozen-water trade : a true story (New York : Hyperion, c2003.).
I loved Geocities. With Lycos, News Groups and Netscape it forms an indelible part of Internet history.
Please leave the comments option open for all articles. It could turn into a new IceRed…oh there I go again.
Nostalgia will never be the same after this.
DD
A man very similar in appearance to Lu Ping – perhaps it is indeed he – joins me at Stanley Main Beach every day for a swim. Strangely, he always tends to swim close to the shore and often goes round and round in circles. Perhaps he has been in Hong Kong too long.
D. Docta
I think Hemlock should open a page on Tripod.
Growl. I stopped being able to access Hemlock from my computer at work. Hadn’t read him for a while and look what happens
THANK YOU FOR SAVING HEMLOCK.