Something I will likely not experience again is discovering a new album and spending time reading the lyrics, enjoying the artwork and just generally being consumed by the entire package. Jumping back to 1982, I had heard the first greatest… Read More ›
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The Geek’s Chihuahua
Think back to 2007, when you got the first iPhone. (You did get one, didn’t you? Of course you did.) You don’t need me to remind you that it was a shiny object of impressive design, slick in hand and… Read More ›
Apple’s ‘Siri Powered’ Device?
There is much talk about Apple released an Alexa competitor at WWDC and I, like many other people, am struggling to see how this could work. One of the reasons people offer for the better Alexa and Google Home experience… Read More ›
She was the daughter of a U.S. spy, an exile from Burma, a flight attendant in a war zone, and half of an epic love story. But how much of that was true?
Disorder, the result of World War II’s aftermath and simmering interethnic conflict, had afflicted Burma for as long as Paula could remember. Consequences were visible: People displaced from the countryside lived in shantytowns along Rangoon’s fringes. In 1962, the situation… Read More ›
2017
The car above is, despite the awful American design, symptomatic of what is to come. It offers a decent range, is well priced and could do an awful lot for electric vehicles. At some point it feels inevitable that electric… Read More ›
Unfreed
Jasmine came to see him right away. They stared at each other for what seemed like an hour. She said he looked weird. He was thinner, his long hair cut short. But he could not be denied now, standing there… Read More ›
A fairly easy decision
I’ve never been owned an iPhone nor a Mac, simply because the upfront cost has been too high. But if I had the money in hand it would actually make more financial sense than it appears to at first sight:… Read More ›
What happens to your identity when you don’t speak to anyone for 27 years?
Candy! Always good. Ten rolls of Smarties, stuffed in a pocket. Then, into his backpack, a bag of marshmallows, two tubs of ground coffee, some Humpty Dumpty potato chips. Burgers and bacon were in the locked freezer. On a previous… Read More ›
The Thieves Who Steal Sunken Warships
The team’s search for other battle casualties in the area was no less haunting. USS Perch, a 300-foot-long American submarine, was gone. So were two British ships—the 329-foot HMS Encounter and the 574-foot Exeter. Another, the 329-foot HMS Electra, had… Read More ›
Called Apple Support, wish I hadn’t
Over the past 2 weeks I have been struggling to get in to the App Store or iTunes on my iPhone without having to go to Settings and sign out of my Apple ID. When I sign back in it… Read More ›
