Samsung Gear 360 (2017)
Our last gadget purchase for our trip to Western Australia – and not a moment too soon too! I’ve been keeping an eye on 360 cameras for some months now, but held back picking one up on account that while
Butterflies @ Minton
Time and tides wait for no man. A lime butterfly flew into our balcony and I quickly called H and P to sit quietly to observe its egg-laying behavior. I always thought it would pause on a citrus leaf for
Food Processing – Part 2
And the machine I decided on was the Thermomix TM5. Not quite the best machine of the three I was considering whether by function or price, but it was the one which would be least painful to fix if anything
Plants Maintenance Day
The thing about having plants in a house like ours is that they are often the last to receive attention as they don’t complain, cry or soil themselves. They can get thirsty and diseased too like us but they suffer
ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2017 – Part 3 – Breaking Down
And quite literally too, because the X1 Carbon broke down just 5 days after delivery. After loading up the notebook with the office productivity tools, Microsoft Office, Photoshop, a Linux distro on VirtualBox, the machine strolled along nicely for all
Food Processing – Part 1
One nice thing about being a Minton resident is in the residents’ social network we’ve built up over the last three years. While not all residents are on the Facebook group yet – many I guess either do not know
ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2017 – Part 2 – Early Impressions
And of early impressions of the new X1 Carbon 5th Generation (X1C5): At 1.13kg, this is almost the lightest full-fledge laptop I’ve owned. I reckon the SP3/keyboard is even lighter still by about 100g though one might also argue that
ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2017 – Part 1 – Finally Arrived
The X1 Carbon finally arrived yesterday – about 18 days from the point of order. And to get to the conclusion first before anything else: Marvelous machine, horrendous after sales support. The longer version will take a couple of posts.
11 Days in Western Australia – Itinerary v4
It’s been almost two months since the last post on our upcoming June trip. Most of the key itinerary has already been laid out in February, though we did make one large change to what we’d do on the first
Sirui T-024X Carbon Fiber Tripod / C-10S Ball Head
It’s sometimes amusing to hear the camera division salespersons of large household electronic appliance stores pitch why one should buy cameras from them – even when they’re routinely sold at standard retail prices. They’d say their camera packages include all
Chess with Kids
As parents, we consciously limit our two kids’ exposure to mobile gadgets as much as possible. While both Hannah and Peter do enjoy the occasional time they get on the iPad, neither seem particularly hung up about it when they
Notebook 2017
Continuing from a post from just over a month ago here. The month of March came and went past without Microsoft making a formal announcement on the highly anticipated successor to the Surface Pro 4. Insider information though revealed that
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