{"id":2383,"date":"2009-02-05T05:24:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T21:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2010-01-14T09:02:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T01:02:17","slug":"keeping-up-with-the-lims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/02\/05\/keeping-up-with-the-lims\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping up with the Lims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to spend a lot of money as an early adopter of new toys that come along. I was quite at the forefront: the early 3D graphic accelerators just before the mid 90s, optical drives from 1995, video imaging starting from CD-i then to first generation Creative Encore DVD drives just a few years after that, then PDA gadgets starting from the monochrome Palm then <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jornada_(PDA)\">HP Jornadas<\/a> at the turn of the century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/image1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/image-thumb.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" width=\"169\" height=\"240\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> Now, one gadget that I\u2019ve flip-flopped around quite a bit are the personal organizers. I oscillated between those paper organizers to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palm_PDA\">Palm IIIs<\/a> to various <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jornada_(PDA)\">HP Jornadas<\/a> then to Smartphones. Their primary function back then was to help me keep in my head the \u201cTasks\u201d and to-do-list of things at any given point in time.<\/p>\n<p>Thing though is that those gadgets just didn\u2019t hold for long. The problem invariably centered on that I found my lifestyle having to change around those personal organizing devices as opposed to the other way round. Moreover, I could remember those task lists just fine, and hopefully can still in the next years to come LOL.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, after marriage and now mindful of home accounting, I\u2019ve become a lot more circumspect in throwing money just to satisfy early curiosity. That there\u2019s a lot more information and site previews on products online helps a lot. Say for instance I took a while to decide on a gaming console, getting as much information as I needed to decide. And the current graphics accelerator in my PC is now 1.5 years old: unheard of 8 years ago when I was upgrading the graphics card every 6 months. And I held off buying a netbook for 6 months until I was absolutely certain <a href=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/01\/15\/toys-and-babies\/\">how I\u2019d use it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The benefit of realigning your purchasing workflow is of course less money wastage. I\u2019m still buying toys, but hey, at least I think twice now \u2013 and that\u2019s a first step.:)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"blog-P1000556-toys\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/blogp1000556toys.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-P1000556-toys\" width=\"521\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to spend a lot of money as an early adopter of new toys that come along. I was quite at the forefront: the early 3D graphic accelerators just before the mid 90s, optical drives from 1995, video imaging<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/02\/05\/keeping-up-with-the-lims\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Keeping up with the Lims<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-toys-technology","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-16-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}