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The privacy polices in Hong Kong is very lacking. If something is not done soon there may be more cases of confidential information leaked in the wild or worst, more prevalent identify thefts.

You can read my opinion in My Blog.

Server problems, support ticket at hosting provider, and potential censorship lead to a silver lining.

You can read the full post in My Blog.

The reaction to the Vodafone announcement that it has strike a deal with Apple to release the iPhone in 10 countries: Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey, was a mix bag of haters, be-littler and fan-boy.

The iPhone arriving in Asia had been anticipated for some time.

You can read the full post in My Blog.

Do we mimic real life metaphor with our technologies? Or are we taking the easy route to the riches?

As I've always said, "If it is going to be easy for the end-user, there had been a lot of effort put in buy the developer/technologist."

You can read the full post in My Blog.

This evening I saw the movie "Iron Man" at UA Cinema, Time Square, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.

You can read my movie review in My Blog.

China is going to launch their own mobile TV technology in time for the Olympic games' opening ceremony on August 8, 2008.

Mobile TV standards have been largely incompatible, with systems in the North America, South America, South Korea, Italy and Japan. Now we see yet another incompatible system to be introduced in one of the largest potential user based. Shall we keep starting these standards wars? We saw the battle of BetaMAX and VHS. We recently saw the HD disk format war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray.

You can read the full post in My Blog.

My small attempt to support the people of Tibet. A small token to help keep the discussion alive.

You can read my opinion in My Blog.

This evening I saw the movie "Step Up 2 the Streets" at UA Cinema, Time Square, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.

You can read my movie review in My Blog.

I realized that many of you may have arrived at this site looking to find out more about me.

As this is my personal web site, I will try to get you started by giving you a brief background of who I am, and some guidance for where on my site to start exploring.

I am a Hong Kong born Canadian who is now living in Hong Kong after being away for 20 years.

I had been working in the Technology industry for the past 17+ years, details of which you can read about in my resume. During most of my professional time in North America I own and operated Vinko Enterprises Inc.

In the Winter time I enjoy Alpine Skiing and in the Summer I enjoy windsurfing and in-line skating, but unfortunately I had not been able to do much recently except for the latter.

One other thing I enjoy a lot are War Games, where I am a member of a team called "JSOC". You can see some of our operations from images in my Photo Library.

Traveling and photography are also things I enjoy, you can see examples of these passions from my collection of photos here on my site and on my Flickr account.

I do refer to myself as a "futurist" and "true technology versatilist", but I will not elaborate this point here.

I currently operates an online business, "Vinko's Treasures" here and on eBay US, UK and Australia, bringing goods that I found to be high quality and good value to customers all over the world. Specializing on products that are designed in Hong Kong. These include the following among others:

I am happy to announce that on July 17, 2006 my online store, has become an official reseller for STIKFAS™ action figures.

Please go an check them out and begin your own collection of this great award winning Singapore invention by Mister Ban YJ.