Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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