The Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad 4 Trumps the...
After sitting on the fence about purchasing a MacBook Air or an Ultrabook, I finally decided to pass on those items (no Retina display!) and equipped my current iPad 3 with a Logitech Ultrathin...
View ArticlePrintstagram Flipbook Calendar BOOM
Just received from Printstagram, this Flipbook calendar features 356 square pictures I took last year and can now keep. It comes with a handy box to preserve your calendar sheets. One of the problems...
View ArticleNew Year, New Look
Eminently readable. Looks like it was inspired by the Microsoft web mail page, yes, yes, but I like it. Thank you all for reading and happy new year.
View ArticleWhat Good is a Stinkin’ iPad?
My good friend SY wrote me yesterday asking basically, “what good is a stinkin’ iPad?” Hi Mike! How are you?? My husband and I bought an iPad for my dad, but he decided he didn’t really have use for...
View ArticleMacbook Pro 13 inch Retina Display
If computers were cars, the Macbook Pro 13 inch Retina Display is an M3. Fast but practical. The screen -oh my the screen, you can’t peel your eyes away. Here , I’m loading Windows XP on Virtualbox.
View ArticleBest Buy To Close 15 Stores In Canada
The writing is on the wall with these stores that don’t even know where the clearance items they feature on line are when you show up at the store with evidence that they have these items in stock on...
View ArticleAir Display for Dual Retina Display Computing
Useful for displaying two presentations at once. Here I am putting together a talk I will be giving in Korea.
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Reblogged from Golfism -life is a metaphor for golf: The Olympics make me cry. Watching Gabby Douglas triumph brought tears to my eyes. The Pistorius story makes me bawl. Every four years, I choke...
View ArticleAre you in?
The generations since World War II have been separated into marketing niches of Greatest and Boomer, then X,Y, and Z, but I suspect that no set of people since Homo erectus figured out fire, speech,...
View ArticleReview -Olympus E-PL5 Micro 4/3 Mirrorless Camera
Picked up this camera along with a 45mm F1.8 lens at the duty free in Incheon (always dangerous to wait there for your flight). I had held off purchasing a full SLR for years because of the weight, but...
View ArticleSpooky
I have to confess that I like to scare little kids. That feeling of spookiness is one of those childhood sensations that you lose with innocence. The toddler’s wide eyes, the pursed lips, the knitted...
View ArticleMicrosoft Office 365 on iPad
The iPhone version of Office 365 works okay via Bluetooth keyboard on an iPad. No PowerPoint creation or editing, only spreadsheets and word docs.
View ArticleManakiki Golf Course -a Donald Ross public gem
I am ecstatic that I found this course while on a “staycation.” For 40 bucks, you get to play a round on a Donald Ross designed course that has been lovingly cared for by the management and players....
View ArticleHi Resolution Display, All Day Battery Life -Windows Can’t Get There
I just picked up a Nexus 7 (2013) tablet. I got tired of waiting for the iPad Mini to come out with a Retina display, and I bit when this gem came out. It confirmed for me this fact -iOS is way, way...
View ArticleActually ASUS did get there: ASUS VIVO TAb Review
I wrote during the summer that Microsoft didn’t have a tablet that met the criteria of high definition screen, all day battery life, and functional design. I was writing about their Surface line of...
View ArticleThe Comical Irony That iOS 7 Users Are Suffering From Blue Screens Of Death
Reblogged from TechCrunch: So Windows sometimes does this thing when your computer freaks the heck out, displays a blue screen, and then reboots or fails in some other way. Called the Blue Screen of...
View Article25th Reunion Class Report Excerpts
…It strikes me odd how fast 25 years flew by. I have decided it is a function of age and perception of time. Looking through the eyes of my four year old, I see that a year comprises 25% of his life...
View ArticleInstant Naengmyun: a review of Doong Ji Cold noodle in Beef Broth
I bought a box of these Doog Ji Naengmyun on a whim because of the moonshot represented by attempting a Naengmyun in a box. I remember my mother spending whole days rendering the beef broth that forms...
View ArticleGomtang Instant Noodle Soup -it’s all in the soup
The food alchemists in Korea have many years and lots of resources to tweak products towards a kind of perfection that the Korean market demands with the byproduct that Asia as a whole likes South...
View ArticleGomtang Instant Noodle Soup -it’s all in the soup
Gomtang Instant Noodle Soup -it’s all in the soup.
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