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Returning to the US, I had to buy a lot of new household electronics. No, that UK TV won’t work over here. Or the DVD. Or the Xbox. Or the telephones. Or the … you get the point. Best Buy turned out to be my port of call for most of this [...]
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Wow — first the Ginsu knife man dies, now the inventor of the Aeron chair has passed away, Valleywag
says, pointing at a New York Times
write-up. Unlike a Ginsu knife, I did buy an Aeron chair. Sure, it was expensive and a symbol of Silicon Valley exuberance. But it’s also the best chair I’ve ever owned, one just past six [...]
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Soon I hope to do an update on how well my TomTom 910 GPS performed last month getting me around California. But tangentially, some donut news, one of my favorite subjects. We’re getting more Dunkin’ Donuts nationwide (the nation of the US, that is). And I’ll even make it TomTom related.
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Forget exploding liquids. The Wall Street Journal has a scary article today (paid reg. required) about laptop batteries catching fire on airplanes. From the opening: Passengers aboard Lufthansa Flight 435 at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on May 15 were settling in for the nine-hour haul to Munich, Germany, when [...]
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I wrote before about my TomTom Go 700 portable GPS system. Now I’ve graduated to the newer version, the TomTom 910. I hadn’t expected to make the jump so soon, but a number of things came together to push me toward this nice new device. My old TomTom Go 700 was great, but [...]
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I’ve long promised to do a big write-up about my Microsoft MSN Direct SPOT watch, and I promise, it’s coming soon. I have a long plane ride coming up next week where I plan to get it done. But given the news of Google now giving mobile traffic information, I wanted to [...]
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About two months ago, I purchased an digital picture frame that I highly recommend to anyone who wants to see their digital photos easily without resorting to printing them out. My frame is a Philips 7FF1AW/05, as shown below.
I’d seen electronic photo frames before, but they were always so absurdly [...]
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The Nintendo DS Lite came to the UK this week. I’d been thinking about getting one for myself, rather than borrowing one of the kids’ DS Nintendos as I’ve been doing recently. Normally, I wait for a trip back to the US to buy items like this, as they’re often a little cheaper. But the [...]
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It’s been about two weeks since I’ve gotten Sky HD. I wasn’t super thrilled with the picture quality at first, but I’ve since been fully converted. When people in the US would talk about HD, it sounded miraculous. In part, I think that’s because the NTSC standard is lower quality than PAL (see [...]
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A further decent into geekdom, a post about my new shredder. But hey, I love to research purchases almost as much as making them. I’ve had a little shredder for years, a Rexel V15S. It’s sat under my desk and diligently munched up my top secret documents. Well, old bank statements and other [...]
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