Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
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
My follow-up post to the SP3 and XPS13 after having put both through two and one weeks of respective use. My initial intentions for both devices were to leave the SP3 at home and for the XPS13 to be the
Incredibly; more than 3 months have whizzed past since I last did a photo post on our two kids! Hannah has been growing both in understanding the world around her and also in her sense of independence and decision-making. We’ve
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
The accommodation package we chose at Santhiya @ Koh Phangan was half-board – breakfast was provided, and the other meals would be of our own arrangements. Our stay though was at the fast North-East corner of the island, with the
Of our two kids at our week-long stay in Koh Phangan, Hannah – easily – enjoyed it more than Peter did, and probably more than the both of us too. Peter was already a little cranky for the first half
The issues we had with our stay at Santhiya began almost immediately after we landed at Koh Samui airport. Sigh. Upon landing at the airport and after clearing customs and collecting our luggage, we headed to the Arrivals pick-up point
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