View Larger Map I’ve long wanted to do a post about the “German village” that’s about a mile from our home in Wiltshire. The British Army uses this as an urban training ground (and a few years ago, an “Iraqi village” sprung up next to it. Living in the middle of the Salisbury Plain training [...]
I know. A story about problems with Dell and customer support aren’t new. I know about Jeff Jarvis, his experience and the “been there, done that” feel of another blogger writing about Dell issues. But coming back from a trip and finding my recently repaired Dell desktop failing to boot as has been the case [...]
Twelve years after leaving Newport Beach, I’m almost back to living here again. The past three weeks we’ve been on vacation in Newport, getting the boys used to coming back and making various arrangements. And as part of that return, I’ve had the strangest sense of a needle dropping back down on a record after [...]
Only one more day left in Newport Beach before heading back to the UK, at least until the permanent move this summer. Below, a few random photos from beachside: the filming of Hard Breakers, the world’s most expensive basketball court, a freaky weird cat and the deal with that picture above. I’ll take the skywriting [...]
We visited the school our children will be going to when we move to California later this year. How much was lunch, I asked? $2.95 per day. Wow. I’m old. It was like 55 cents when I was a kid. And I can remember skipping lunches often in high school (I think I got $1 [...]
Consider this a semi-guest post from my oldest son, who is outraged that the Club Penguin server upgrade that was completed this week has caused him and his brother to lose all their penguin colors and all the items they’d purchased for their penguins. I did some searching, and there’s no mass outcry, so maybe [...]
I hit the Vans skatepark in Orange last night with my youngest son, and I couldn’t help again but think of how nice skateboarders are. You come into this park where people are whizzing all around, and you could assume that it’s everyone on their own. But in reality, everyone is keeping a watch on [...]
I’ve read plenty of articles by now that cover how much people might be exposing themselves to identity theft through social networking and social sharing sites. But I’ve had a different worry over the past year or so. Is all my twittering, Flickr posting, Facebooking and so on putting my kids in danger? Think about [...]
I blame Jason Calacanis for making me think about the number of Twitter followers I have. He wants to be the number one Twitterer in terms of followers, as measured by Twitterholic. Currently, he’s number two. I saw him in New York last month, and he talked much about he wanted to raise his “Jason [...]
About two weeks ago, I dived in to merge two years worth of mail from one Gmail account to my existing Google Apps mail account. I wanted to cover how it went and how it caused me inadvertently to abandon my cherished desktop client, Outlook, for two weeks. No, it didn’t make me a web-based [...]