July 31, 2007 – 2:30 pm
About a month ago I finished Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a boy soldier. The delay in my writing of this review is by no means an indication of my feelings towards this book. In fact, this is one of the best books I’ve read in a while.
When one hears the term [...]
July 27, 2007 – 12:20 am
I have added a new album to the gallery called Miscellaneous. Here I will post pictures of people, places, and things that don’t belong in their own dedicated album. The purpose is to get some pictures in the gallery that otherwise wouldn’t go up and also to track my improvement as I learn more about [...]
July 26, 2007 – 10:10 pm
Here it is, my first post on the new Dell Inspiron 1520. Since it’s my first post on this new machine, I might as well use it to do a mini review. I say mini because I really didn’t have the time to take a bunch of pictures of the unboxing and there are so [...]
July 22, 2007 – 8:43 pm
Last Monday, I customized and ordered a new Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop and, as of yesterday, it is in Purolator’s possession, on its way to my house. The laptop I have now is on its 7th year and is just too slow to use on a daily basis. I was struggling with it during school [...]
July 18, 2007 – 2:10 pm
When buying larger electronics, one typically gets stuck juggling large pieces of white Styrofoam packaging, which usually ends up in the garbage. Wouldn’t it be great if this bulk of material could be put to good use?
Designer Tom Ballhatchet did just this by turning the packaging for a big screen TV into a usable– and [...]
July 14, 2007 – 3:33 pm
Author and world traveler, Tim Ferriss, has put together a post and video describing his travel packing technique. Although I try to pack light, my bag never ends up looking like something Tim would carry around. To the left you can see the bag I packed for a 3-day trip in the Salvadorian countryside. Something [...]
July 13, 2007 – 4:53 pm
This summer I have really noticed that the best weekends are those spent outdoors or doing things that don’t cost much money. It seems like many people have the idea that you need to spend a lot of money to have fun, but that simply isn’t the case. Those activities also tend to be harder [...]
July 9, 2007 – 12:13 pm
There was a segment on the radio today about people who have quit their day jobs and started doing something that they have always enjoyed, trying to make a living from it. It was a pretty inspirational discussion and one of the speakers said something that made a lot of sense to me. He said [...]
July 7, 2007 – 1:27 pm
For those who haven’t heard, Live Earth is going on today. It is a set of worldwide concerts happening on every continent (yes, even Antarctica) to help raise awareness about global climate issues. With the efforts of Al Gore, SOS, and performers around the world, this concert is being broadcasted to billions of people. It [...]
July 4, 2007 – 6:35 pm
It was 30 minutes of frustration last Friday morning that finally pushed me over the edge. Rita and I struggled to fit our bikes into the trunk/backseat of my civic coupe and it just wasn’t happening. After grunting and groaning (and a little bit of cursing here and there), we opted to take our rollerblades [...]
July 3, 2007 – 11:23 pm
I’m not an avid Starbucks goer, but Rita’s newfound love for the Mocha Frappuccino has landed us there a couple of times in the past week. On our latest visit, we were sitting near a garbage can. It wasn’t the bright blue paint job on the can that caught my eye, but the overflow of [...]
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