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“I was busy looking for a ‘explode macbook’ button.”

Posted on 30 Oct 200913 Jul 2018   by CY

Well, no one can now say – hopefully – that I didn’t give MacBooks a chance. My NEC Versa E6310 has undergone abuse. It’s switched on at least 10 hours a day, everyday at work for 2 years now, it

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Posted in At Home, Toys & Technology    Tagged Laptops   

Keeping An Eye

Posted on 13 Sep 200913 Jul 2018   by CY

When I’m at home rarely a day goes by where I don’t visit technology related sites at least several times a day. There’re a couple of identical sites that I’ve got on my Bookmark Menu on each of my desktops

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Posted in At Home, Photography & Cameras, Toys & Technology    Tagged Laptops   

Getting packed

Posted on 21 Mar 200913 Jul 2018   by CY

Funnily, I don’t usually have difficulties deciding what to pack for trips out of the country. I have a handy spreadsheet that lists the standard items that go into luggage and/or hand-carry. Thereafter, the only thing that needs to get

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Posted in At Home, Toys & Technology, Traveling    Tagged Laptops, Nikon D300, San Francisco 2009   

All wired up

Posted on 16 Feb 200913 Jul 2018   by CY

If there’s one thing I missed when I was in Perth, it was quality Internet access. The University network was pretty good, but public Internet access was a different matter. For the first year, I was using dial-up 56K connections,

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Posted in At Home, Children Blues, Toys & Technology    Tagged Laptops   

Windows 7

Posted on 18 Jan 200913 Jul 2018   by CY

One of the best things about having more than a few notebooks and PCs at home is that one of the machines get designated as the throwaway toy and you can really try all sorts of stuff on it. And

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Posted in Toys & Technology    Tagged Laptops   

Toys and babies

Posted on 15 Jan 200913 Jul 2018   by CY

Matt was asking about a new toy I picked up. But ah no; this isn’t about toys for the coming baby.:) Ling has started making regular trips to Thomson Medical Center and in about five months will be delivering there.

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Posted in At Home, Children Blues, Toys & Technology    Tagged Laptops    2 Comments on Toys and babies   

UMPCs. Oh my… so kawaii!!!!

Posted on 31 May 200813 Jul 2018   by CY

Notebooks have to achieve balance between weight, battery power, performance and form factor, and as satisfied as I am with the two notebooks I use, the want to carry around PDA-sized and truly portable and light notebooks is always somewhere

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