A bit of this and a bit of that

We’ve had slow moving water in the shower for a few weeks now, and usually we use some sort of drain unblocker or a plunger. But this time I decided to try something completely different. I managed to get my hands on a JML Turbo Snake, a little gizmo that you can slide down the [...]

The great thing about having good weather is that we can actually make more use of the patio. In fact, this evening we just rolled out the new patio furniture, and had dinner out in the fresh air. It was fun and I’m sure the babies enjoyed it too. They seem to like the outdoors, [...]

Well, it’s playtime by my definition, as I have 2 gadget to play with at home. Camille just told me that my Buffalo Linkstation has arrived. It’s a NAS device with redundant storage, or in other words, somewhere I can put my photos and videos without fear that they may be lost. It’s a nifty [...]

Do you have an LCD TV or one of the old-style CRT sets? Even though I’m well into my gadgets I must admit that we have a CRT TV. I’ve never really felt the move to switch to a thinner model because the TV we have does all we need. Also, when Arthur was younger [...]

It was great to finally see Google’s new mobile OS finally launch after lots of talk and speculation. The Google G1 looks to be pretty cool, though there do seem to be a number of initial flaws and rooms for improvement. Still, it’s relatively new so I’m sure a number of the shortcomings will be [...]

Walked into a PCWorld store yesterday and looked around at some new TVs. There are some nice models out there though it’s interesting to see what a big variation in quality and prices you can still find. I quite liked some of the LG models so maybe that’s what we’ll upgrade to eventually. Not sure [...]