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Vancouver vacation tips 25 Aug 2013 | 10:08 pm
Swan Laundry will pick up your laundry at your hotel, wash and fold it, and return it the same day for a $50 flat fee. Wind Mobile has an unlimited 3G hotspot plan for $35 per month (they will thrott...
The wild parrots of Forest Hill 11 Aug 2013 | 01:26 am
I got an unexpected but quite welcome treat this morning for my birthday. A mini-flock of 6-8 red-masked parakeets, better known as the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill, descended on a hawthorn tree in ...
Street sweeping reminders in iCal 27 Jul 2013 | 06:48 am
San Francisco sweeps streets twice a month in residential neighborhoods, and you will be fined if your car is parked on a street being swept. On my street, the schedule is the first and third Monday o...
How the iPad Mini killed my iPhone 28 Feb 2013 | 01:39 am
The single greatest feature of the iPad is the fact it cannot receive phone calls. Despite being a telecoms engineer by training, I despise phones, and it seems the millennial generation shares my dis...
The ultimate irrelevance of image quality 15 Feb 2013 | 01:02 am
Months ago I showed my father how to take screen shots on his iPad and iMac, and he routinely takes them while using FaceTime video conferencing with my 1 year-old daughter. Due to poor bandwidth at h...
Sony RX1 first impressions 28 Jan 2013 | 09:44 pm
Despite my hatred of all things Sony, I purchased two of their cameras in the last few months: a RX100 for my wife, and a RX1 for myself. the bragging rights of a full-frame sensor with a Zeiss 35mm f...
Cheeky 20 Sep 2012 | 06:30 pm
This is a popup the iOS6 App Store shows me when I try searching for a Google Maps app.
If WordPress updates hang on a 64-bit OS 26 Aug 2012 | 04:34 pm
The WordPress instance running this site was no longer able to automatically update plugins (and presumably not the core either) after I upgraded from a 32-bit to a sparkling fresh 64-bit PHP install ...
Scanning your iTunes library for DRM-infested books 21 Jul 2012 | 01:48 pm
Tor, the leading publisher for Science Fiction and Fantasy books, announced they would be doing away with DRM in their eBooks. The product pages for their books on iBooks now mention “At the publisher...
The Gresham’s law of Amazon Web Services 19 May 2012 | 09:35 am
In the bad (good?) old days when currency’s worth was established by the amount of gold or silver in coinage, kings would cut corners by debasing currency with lead, which is almost as dense as gold o...
