This weekend, I made a short trip to the southern Hong Kong Island. I started at Deep Water Bay and walked to Repulse Bay, admiring the sea and the surroundings. It’s such a beautiful area.
This is a place where I could imagine myself living. A very serene environment, yet not that far from the financial district of Central and the shopping areas in Tsim Sha Tsui and Mong Kok.
IPTV was rolled out here the other day, in the form of Windows Media streams which are accessible throughout the campus network. The channels are National Geographic, Discovery, CNBC, CNN, BBC World and a couple of Hong Kong news channels. Yes, that’s very limited, also in that all there is to it are those (low definition) streams being linked to from a website (could it actually be called IPTV?), but they did include CNBC (one of the few channels that I could get stuck watching, I admit) and Discovery (another one of those channels).
Pretty useful when relaxing a little after those exams, if nothing else.
By the way, I talked to a representative of CNBC at ITU Telecom World last week. He told me that it is now possible to watch CNBC on their website and that one can freely choose between the US, Europe and Asia editions.
I’m busy with final exams today and in the next couple of days. I just had one in Information Systems Management. Tomorrow, there is an Engineering and Technology Management final and Logistics Management the day after tomorrow. Yes, lots of management oriented stuff this semester.
Right before Christmas, I’ll have an E-commerce Data Mining final exam (why, oh why did they move it from December 16th, ruining my travel plans). One down, three to go.