Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Review: Sigma Sport BC5.12 Bike Computer

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I decided that it would be fun to stick a bike computer on Bowen's bike . GPS units are now so cheap you can get the Pyle Bike Computer ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Review: The Second Ship

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The Second Ship is the first book in The Rho Agenda trilogy. Given that it's in the Prime Lending Library, it was no effort for me to c...
Monday, November 09, 2015

Misunderstandings

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A few funny misunderstandings between Bowen and I this summer. At the end of the summer holidays, I was worried that Bowen wouldn't w...
Friday, November 06, 2015

Review: Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

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After reading the magnificent A Spy Among Friends, I checked out Double Cross from the library, hoping for repeated success. I was disappoi...
Thursday, November 05, 2015

Review: Ex Machina

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I don't usually review movies on this blog, but I'll make an exception for Ex Machina , a delightful science fiction movie about AI ...
Wednesday, November 04, 2015

Review: The Last Child in The Woods

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I really wanted to like The Last Child in The Woods . I grew up in Singapore, in a city where door-to-door inspections have eliminated the A...
Tuesday, November 03, 2015

ANT+ vs BTLE

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I had no idea that ANT+ vs BTLE was politically charged until I continually ran across people online who were "anything but Garmin...
Monday, November 02, 2015

Review: Year's Best SF 10

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I checked out Year's Best SF 10 froom the library prior to a trip, but read it mostly because all the stories in it were new to me. The...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Review: Lightroom 6

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I actually upgraded to Lightroom 6 a while back, but waited until I did a couple of trips with large amounts of photography before writing ...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Review: A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

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Truth is stranger and more interesting than fiction. Nowhere else is it more (and better) illustrated than in this book, A Spy Among Friends...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Review: The Curve of Time

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Scarlet told me to read The Curve of Time after finding out about our trip to Desolation Sound . My local library didn't have a copy, s...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Review: Why Nations Fail

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Why Nations Fail tries to ask and answer several questions: Why are certain nations rich or poor? Is it a matter of history? Why do som...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Review: Carbide Tipped Pens

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I'll admit that when it comes to science fiction, I like the really hard stuff. Alastair Reynolds, David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, etc. So...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Review: Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman

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I try my best not to re-read books. But somehow Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman made it into my kindle library (probably in an attemp...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

How parents become boring people

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I noticed that families would tend to just do the same trips over and over again. For instance, when I spoke to Horizon Yacht Charters , the...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Review: Writing Great Fiction

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Every so often I get one of those Great Courses catalogs in the mail. The prices are usually tempting, but audiobooks aren't a great me...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Review: Finders Keepers

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Finders Keepers is Stephen King's literary thriller about crimes that come back to haunt us. The novel opens with a murder of a writer ...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Review: The Rhesus Chart

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My brother sent me a copy of The Rhesus Chart , because he saw my review of The Annihliation Score and thought that The Rhesus Chart was a ...
Friday, October 16, 2015

Review: Woom 2 Child Bike

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It's no secret that I'm a cycling enthusiast. A cycling enthusiast cares not just about his own cycling, but also whether his kids a...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Review: Arkham Knight

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It's no secret that I'm a fan of the Arkham Batman games. They're fun, and do a great job of simulating Batman. I was put off fr...