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“OK, Glass” 10 Jun 2013 | 05:37 am
I played a bit with Google Glass. Here’s the TL;DR version. This is a new category of everyday Heads-Up Display devices. It is going to be great and widely used. This first version of Glass is an ab...
Why I bought and returned a LaCie 2TB Little Big Disk Thunderbolt drive 22 Aug 2012 | 01:00 pm
I’m in the process of migrating my personal computing from an iMac to Macbook Pro. Since MBP doesn’t have the luxury of a 2TB secondary HDD like the iMac had, I looked at external drive options. Thund...
Benchmarking 2012 Retina Macbook Pro vs 2010 iMac 22 Aug 2012 | 11:48 am
The last home computer I bought was a maxed out iMac in late 2010. I recently got a Retina Macbook Pro and thought it would be interesting to compare the machines’ performance for both work and play p...
How to import your iCloud contacts to Google / Android universe 28 Jul 2012 | 06:38 am
I previously said that there is no web UI to manage your Android contacts, and there’s no sane way to import your iCloud contacts. Fortunately, this was not correct, and there are simple tools for bot...
Samsung Galaxy S3 gives iPhone 4 a run for its money 16 Jul 2012 | 03:53 pm
I bought myself a Samsung Galaxy S3 Android phone. No, I haven’t ditched iOS. I just happen to have phones in different countries, and rather than keep switching out SIMs or such, it’s a good excuse ...
The phone call you weren’t expecting 27 Jun 2012 | 12:56 pm
A few months ago, my mobile rang. Unknown number. I picked up. “Hello?” “Hi. This is so-and-so. Do you remember me? You purchased this-and-that from me a while back.” I remembered. She was a medica...
BT_ESCM and “Flaming June.” Pure classic trance genius 8 Jun 2012 | 01:39 pm
I am somewhat ashamed of myself. And yet glad that I no longer have to be. I am somewhat of a trancehead and really dig the genre. It is great “work music” and I just plain like it. I’ve been trying ...
My ski bus mixes 1 Apr 2012 | 05:49 pm
I was on a Bay Area Ski Bus today (which is an amazing way to get to the mountain from around here). The ride is about 4 hours each way. On the way back, there was no movie playing so I figured I’d ju...
An interesting e-mail [or boring scam] I got from China regarding my trademarks 30 Mar 2012 | 07:31 pm
UPDATE: on second look, it feels that it’s just a scam and I’m an idiot for wasting your time with this post. Sorry if so. It did get past my personal filter that usually doesn’t fail me. I did send t...
Liars and Outliers, and “they” 25 Mar 2012 | 09:23 am
“Liars and Outliers” is a book by well-known security author Bruce Schneier. It talks about the role and mechanisms of trust in society, and how these have evolved over time as we have scaled our civi...
