Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Continuing from my earlier post of what’s working well on the LX100! The first LX100 that I picked up from the shop tested fine there. But barely 20 minutes later when I’d left the shop and was on my way
Almost five months ago I did a post on large-sensor compact cameras. And after a fairly long back-and-forth period of indecision since that point, I finally decided yesterday and picked up the LX100. The contenders alongside the LX100 were the
The Plugable UD3000 arrived from Amazon export sales late last week, just a shade under a fortnight after placement of order. I couldn’t find a local reseller for this (for the most part) well-reviewed USB 3.0 docking station, and the
The Dell XPS 13 (2015) finally arrived yesterday afternoon – 2 days after the initial projected delivery date. I’m not absolutely certain of the reason for the delay in assembly, but from what I’m reading on online forums about others
It seems that my new Dell XPS 13 (2015) will take longer to get delivered now. Several days ago, the online status of the unit inexplicably changed backwards from “Work in Progress” to “Order Received” – the latter state of
The Microsoft Surface Pro 3 arrived at our door-step WEDS yesterday evening. Pretty quick. The Microsoft point of distribution was in Shenzhen China. The order was placed on Sunday evening, processed the following afternoon by DHL, picked-up by the courier
It wasn’t easy deciding on my MacBook Pro Retina replacement, on account that no matter what I might think of the general reliability of their MBPs, they do produce lovely machines (externally at least), decent specifications, and as an educator,
As (bad) luck would have it, barely two days after writing my year-end notes of 2014, the MacBook Pro Retina – my daily-use computer at work – started failing spectacularly. The machine is just a shade under 2.5 years old,
Another year, and time for my annual year-end post on our big decisions of 2014 – what went well and what didn’t! Choice of Interior Designer – Win: Our renovation project took a good part of all our free time
Well – six of seven days later into our 2014 vacation at the Santhiya @ koh Phangan, I’ve got decidedly mixed feelings about the place! Some parts of it were indeed as advertised, while others weren’t – and to top
And for my 43rd BD, the wife got me this: And I like it.:) Ling every year has a lot of difficulties thinking of the right gadget/toy to buy for me. There were two memorable BD presents mishaps of this
Ever since picking up the iPad mini Retina in June this year, my mobile data usage has shot up significantly, and each month at about its fourth week, I start having to put very close attention and ensure that I
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