Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
There’s yet another sign that time passes by so quickly, and it’s how soon I have to write another end-of-year retrospective post! Every year end I write a long post to reflect on the ‘big’ (e.g. costly and involving technological
I had a Windows Live Messenging conversation with the wife yesterday afternoon, and it went like this. “Dear, I have a confession to make.” “I know. You bought yourself a new toy?” “!!! Dear, you’re so clever.:)” “When you have
A few years ago I put up a status update on Facebook; and it read like this: “The wife has discovered online shopping. I’m dead.” That of course elicited a lot of ‘Likes’ and humorous comments that followed that status
The screen on my 1 year 4 months iPad 2 went kaput over the weekend. Initially I was just astonished. Weren’t Apple products commanding premiums because their products do not compromise on quality? But here’s the funniest thing. After Ling
Interestingly, over the years while we’ve had many friends who’ve tried blogging, not many keep up with posting after a while. I think a good part of it is that blogging in itself isn’t convenient, relative to social network sites
The MacBook Pro Retina (rMBP) arrived on Tuesday afternoon, about 8 days after placing an order for it. The notebook configuration I chose wasn’t the base configuration. Given that the new series of rMBPs can’t be user-upgraded later after it
One thing that Apple prides itself is in its product packaging, so much so that the iconic boxes that are used to pack its iPhone even features in the current lawsuit they’ve piled on Samsung. One change that has issued
It’s been more than four years since my 2008 post recollecting the different notebooks I’ve used for the last twelve years up till that point. Right about time to do another update, since I’ve been used or owned several more
A short video taken over the weekend using the Canon IXUS HS115 + WP-DC310L. I had some difficulty transcoding the original video file onto Flickr, hence the rather weird letterbox around the video below. Might work on it later again.
Camera phones have really come a long way. It didn’t seem more than just 2-3 years past when the pictures you got out of most camera phones were routinely out-of-focus, badly exposed and so full of noise grain that they
I picked up the Samsung Galaxy Note on Thursday evening. I really liked the Motorola Atrix I had been using for six months. It was well-built, fast, the longest battery life I’ve experienced outside this Nokia mono-color phone I use
Hannah now alternates between the Water game and a free(!) drawing program I picked up a week ago. One would think she’ll still be more interested in the game, but funnily, when I asked her last night what she’ll prefer,
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