nick’s (n)-line life

Over the past few months there have been posters all over the HKU campus advertising for the CBL China International Law School. I must say that at first, I thought the idea was rather neat. Here’s their blurb:
English speaking students get the opportunity to study Chinese and International business law during the three-week course. No [...]

A Photo from the n-line galleries…

Taken on the grounds of Girton College, Cambridge during the current good weather.

Yep, after much build-up, today is the big day in Singapore:
IBN Live — Polls opened at 0000 GMT at more than 400 voting stations and were to close 12 hours later. By late morning, one-fifth of the 1.2 million registered voters had cast their compulsory votes, the elections department said.

The Contenders:

and the currently ruling PAP:

Results [...]

This year’s local elections are now wrapped up and the results are as follows:

Councils
Councillors

Party

Net +/-
Total
Net +/-
Total

Conservative

12
67
250
1568

Labour

-18
24
-254
1064

Liberal Democrat

1
13
18
781

Residents Association

0
0
-8
21

Green

0
0
14
20

British National Party

0
0
13
13

Liberal

0
0
-1
9

Independent (…) Health Concern

0
0
1
5

SALT

0
0
0
3

UK Independence Party

0
0
0
1

Others

 0
0
-33
94

No Overall Control

 5
59
-
-

The real winners were the Conservatives, with the Lib Dems holding their own, and labour falling flat on its face. The BBC have published a  very useful Interactive election [...]

With Microsoft’s planned release of Windows Vista later this year next year Apple have changed their marketing tactics, we’re being told to: “Buy a Mac - It just Works”

Commentators have picked up on Apple’s increasingly aggressive marketing and it seems, to me, as if this might be linked to the imminent forthcoming Vista release.
I’m not [...]

A lawyer from China Law Blog was recently shocked to discover that his firm’s website degin had been ripped off (Via Peking Duck).
I rather suspect the site won’t be there too much longer, so I’ve taken screenshots for journalistic and archival purposes:

Harris & Moure

Blawg of China

n-line finds this highly entertaining…
As if this wasn’t funny [...]

A few hours ago a story hit Chinese state media that Jia Dezhi, a woman from Muxiang in Yunnan Province, has been arrested after it emerged that she had killed 6 people in order to kidnap and sell their children for profit:
The Australian - Jia, an illiterate, said she could earn up to 15,000 yuan [...]