A new toy is awaiting me at home today. I finally broke down and got a digital SLR camera. I went for the Canon Rebel 10mb XTI with a lens that costs twice as much, the EF-S 17-55mm. I am also getting a flash for it, but I am still hesitant to get the 580ex [...]
I am truly sadden whenever we loose a great artist and Marcel Marceau is no exception. I know that in general, the art of mime is not as honored in the US as it is in other parts of the world. It is evident in so many movies were mimes are mocked. But that’s probably [...]
Yesterday Anika, our 7 year old, overhead us talking about how disappointed we were about Hillary’s new health plan. She interrupted us asking if we were mad about it, to which we replied “well yes, we are”. So I thought this was a great opportunity to school my daughter about our nation’s current “for profit” [...]
I so had to have one. Although I did end up getting the wired one instead of the smaller wireless one because I am tired of recharging/replacing batteries on my old bluetooth keyboard. Having that said, my heart is still set with the smaller one. I can only hope my kids have another liquid spill [...]
To celebrate me and my wife’s birthdays in July, we went to Maui, Hawaii for a a week and took the kids with us. It’s funny because we lived in Los Angeles for 13 years but never vacationed in Hawaii and within a year of living in New York, we decided to go to there. [...]
As some of you know, Apple asked me give a session about WordPress at at their WWDC 07 conference this year. The session was titled “Designing and Extending the Mac OS X Blog Experience” and they gave me an hour to cover how to create a local development system for designing blogs with WordPress and [...]
After many months of painfully slow internet service from Time Warner Cable, I’ve upgraded to a 20 Mbps connection from RCN. According to my first test, I got 15.6 Mbps. Not the advertised rate, but still 20 times faster than what I was actually getting from Time Warner. Even my upload speed is 2.5 times [...]
Today is my 35th birthday. That’s right, I’m entering a new demographic. I know how to go to the next pulldown menu. I am half way through my life and I will be celebrating big next week in Hawaii.
And for those inclined, my Amazon Wish List is up to date.
The iPhone comes with probably the best email application on a mobile device. The problem is that if I read and delete an email on the iPhone, when I get to my laptop I need to do it all over again because my email uses the POP email protocol. And this is cramping my style. [...]
Here’s the proof of my new acquisition. I waited in line for an hour at a local AT&T store only to realize their sense of speed is not the same as Apple’s. So I broke off the line and headed out to the Apple Store in SOHO were it took only 10 minutes to go [...]
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