Category: Toys & Technology
Drawing and 35mm
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,
Year in Review – 2011
Another year almost zoomed right past us already! Time for my annual reflection on what went well and what didn’t. Starting off with the toys first then the others: Olympus E-PL2 (Win): This was a relatively minor upgrade from the
All I want for Christmas!
While Hannah has been with us for 2 Years 6 Months now, we’ve only really celebrated our first family-Christmas this year, with trees, home decorations, stocking, and presents and the like. Hannah (of course) received the most presents, followed closely
Zero Dollar Upgrade
One of the things I most look forward to every couple of years is the renewal of our mobile phone subscriptions, because they invariably mean opportunities to change mobile phones. Yeah it comes with the necessity of having to renew
I ish Repairman!
One of those funny things about being a computer enthusiast and also a computer engineer by training is that for a while, everyone around me concluded I was a 24/7 tech support person! You name it, I did it. Sorting
“It just works…?” Not!!
I’ve had the iPad 2 for just over 2 months now. Never jailbroke it (it became possible just a few days ago). Never installed anything that didn’t come off the iTunes store on it. Never used it for anything other
Parenting Tools
A couple of colleagues and I were lunching this afternoon, and the lunch topic veered into the use of iPads as parenting tools. It was quite a funny conversation as we bounced around how the iPad is used as both
The Pad
If nothing else, ownership of the iPad has not given me any surprises. The tablet has been commented, praised, criticised, debated and reviewed to death; and like every other gadget I invest in, I didn’t walk into the buying process
Hard Decisions
I made what was one of the hardest decisions this year. I bought an IPad2 this afternoon during lunch hour. Yeah despite my intense dislike for the fruit company. I’d been planning to pick up an Android tablet for ages
Going Underwater
Lentor parents was asking a couple of weeks ago if I could pick up a cheap digital compact camera for them to bring on their recent trip back to our ancestral home in Hainan Island. They’d heard a lot about
Year in Review – 2010 – Part 2
We had three fairly significant issues we had to decide for Hannah this year: Putting Hannah into Infant care (Bad): This was initially a pretty clear decision even if it was not easy to make because of compounding factors. We
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