Friday, June 28, 2013

Review: Funky Gourmet, Athens

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I neglected to review Funky Gourmet during my Athens Trip Report . It was a bright spot in an otherwise not very stellar trip. To begin ...

Review: Blood Rites

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Blood Rites is book 6 of the Dresden files series. In this book, Dresden foils a plot involving murder of various women who are working at ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Review: Death Masks

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Death Masks  is the fifth book in the Dresden files . It continues the series' trend away from the private investigator schtick towards ...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Review: Summer Knight

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Summer Knight is the fourth book in the Dresden files. This time, Jim Butcher focuses on the Faerie, while providing more background for Ha...

Review: Before Midnight

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I saw Before Sunrise/Before Sunset as a set of movies years ago. Those were great films, so when XiaoQin mentioned that Before Midnight wa...
Friday, June 21, 2013

Review: Don't Turn Around

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Don't Turn Around is Michelle Gagnon's YA thriller. It does seem custom-written for Hollywood as far as facing the latest trends. T...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Review: Grave Perils

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Grave Perils is the first Dresden book that feels like it's a good novel. It starts out with Dresden and his friend Michael trying to f...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Quantifying the Apple Tax

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The last time I was a Mac user was in 2009 when I upgraded to the Canon 5D Mk 2 and got rid of my Mac Mini as being too slow to run Lightroo...
Friday, June 14, 2013

Review: Fool Moon

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Fool Moon is the second book in Jim Butcher's Dresden files series. It's clear how Butcher's approaching the series. Each book ...

Review: Storm Front

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Storm Front is the first book in the series known as the Dresden Files . The series has been around for a few years, and there's even a...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Review: Kinivo Bluetooth Headset

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My Ericsson MW600 died from the inevitable: it was so small that when it was left in my pocket for a laundry run it was put through the was...
Saturday, June 08, 2013

Review: Every Day

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Every Day is a young adult romance. If there's ever a transparent voice, David Levithan has achieved it in this novel. The book reads e...
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Friday, June 07, 2013

Review: The Corpse Reader

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The Corpse Reader is a strange novel as far as origin, subject matter, and story is concerned. Originally written in Spanish and translated...
Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Review Kindle Basic

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My Kindle Keyboard 3G died on the flight back from Zurich to San Francisco, and Amazon offered me a replacement refurbished Basic Kindle f...
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Using the Nexus 7 as an on-the-go photo editing device

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On the Greece Trip, I decided to be radical and leave the laptop at home. Part of it was just that traveling with a child mean you had too m...

Review: Happy Money

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I wanted to like Happy Money . As Meng once said to me, "Those who say that money can't buy happiness don't know where to shop....
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Review: Sony RX-100

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My Canon S100 was out for a (free) repair due to the dreaded lens error, and I wasn't sure it would make it back from Canon in time for...
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Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Greece Conclusions

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As far as I could tell, the sailing in Greece is not very good. You either get no wind, or too much wind. If the snorkeling/diving/hiking or...

Athens

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We were so tired upon returning to Athens that we spent the rest of the day sleeping and dealing with the unpleasant base manager as well as...

Sailing in the Argolic and Northen Cyclades

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We flew back to Athens and then Taxi's to Alimos Marina, where the checkin process had to be delayed until the boat was cleaned. That ga...