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Nearly 12 years ago I was working as an attorney for the US Congress.  Boredom does not begin to describe my life back then.  I was writing a memo on a health insurance case we were investigating in Japan, when I happened to realize that Arsenal v. Manchester United in the FA Cup was on [...]

Was poking around the post office today looking for some stamps when I came across a new issue from the HK Post Office which looked oddly familiar. The Volunteerism series of postage stamps contains one stamp which shows an “An email from co-workers brings good news on school redevelopment. Children’s smiling faces in the photo [...]

There is a lot of buzz on the Internet about a small little file being stored on the iPhone and sync’d with the computer containing the exact location of your iPhone over the course of the day, week and month.  At the moment this file isn’t really being uploaded or used for any purpose, but [...]

Apple’s Facetime (Free on your iPhone/iPad or .99¢ on your desktop) is a nice high resolution way of doing face-to-face conferences between any two people in the Apple iOS environment.  Want to Facetime grandpa from the iPhone?  It can be done (with a wifi). But with such a nice interface, the question has arisen throughout [...]

One of the neatest things to do with an iPhone (or any smart phone) is to watch TV streams “live” on your phone. Now saying it is “TV” is technically a misnomer–you aren’t technically receiving over the air TV frequencies with your phone and displaying them. Instead these are streaming video feeds from a variety [...]

One of the harder things to do with a blog, legally speaking, is to find images to use without violating some form of copyright. Searching the web for pics is easy, but finding ones you can use legally without paying a royalty is rather tough. But now I’ve found a neat plugin called Photo Dropper. [...]

While the iPad 2′s new cover is really quite a sexy thing, magnets and all, it does leave you feeling a bit naked on the back of your iPad as it offers no protection to the metal back. To rectify this, I’ve just ordered a new ‘skin’ for my iPad 2 back from the Canadian [...]

UPDATE: Wed. March 23. 8:00 PM. We’ll be meeting to put together the remaining kits at Boot.hk offices. Last night members of the Hong Kong Hackerspace, aka Hong Kong Hackjam, got together at the Boot.HK offices to undertake a quick project to help victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. With electricity out in many [...]

The new iPad 2 arrived today in Hong Kong. Well mine at least… My mom bought it in her hometown in South Carolina. She went to a Best Buy about three hours after it went on sale. I pressed her and pressed her to go earlier but she replied “the people in this podunk town [...]

Compelling television it is not, but in case you are curious. Live TV : Ustream

The massive earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan has unleashed a torrent of coverage on the net. THIS WILL BE UPDATED THROUGHOUT THE DAY– TBS News has a MASSIVE collection of videos online Warning maps of the Tsunami throughout the Pacific Live Coverage NHK World Service has an NHK iPhone app. You can watch coverage [...]

I sent out an email the other day about the very important piece that ran in Engadget following the iPad 2 launch. This article really recognized the seminal shift that is underway in technology as it relates to tablets, and correctly identified that the new arguments for which machine to buy or not buy will [...]

Great commercial based on a true story of some old guys who decide to honor their friend who died. Will likely be viral in the US soon.

Apple introduced the new line of MacBook Pro (MBP) laptops last night and like a lot of folks, I’m now stuck in a big debate. Do I buy the most recently updated MBP or do I go with the far sexier, cheaper, and less powerful MacBook Air (MBA)? So I started to make a list. [...]

Yea, Japan has some pretty funky stuff. Starting at about minute 16:30 or so in this video. The video comes from dannychoo.com, who is a blogger / video host about all things Japanese culture. He’s also the guy who dresses as a Stormtrooper and dances around famous landmarks in Tokyo.