It's true, I have one here in the US of A working on T-Mobile. After a very successful acquisition of the coveted Blackberry BOLD from my favorite auction website, I unlocked it with some Google Kung Fu (it was a…
Continue Reading →How many times have you been in this situation? You've just taken what seems like a 92-hour flight to the Australian mainland, hailed a taxi to the beach, plunked yourself down in the sand and said, "now what?" Please don't…
Continue Reading →A spring record preview, simple enough. But, dear God, everyone and their step-mom are putting out a record between now and June. Maybe in the way that terrible Christmas movies get dumped on us in November and December, musicians and…
Continue Reading →You may remember my post way back when about the Rolleiflex MiniDigi when I mentioned that I was on the lookout for the perfect pocket camera. Well, up until yesterday, I hadn't actually acted on that. I waffled back and…
Continue Reading →Last weekend at Mercado Mundo Mix, a market-slash-fair that brings together up-and-coming stores and designers from the underground fashion world mostly in Sao Paulo, I got egged into trying a new super-carbonated and fizzy shot of vodka called Orloff Gas,…
Continue Reading →Last month I had the opportunity to experience the 'Uncrowded and Uncompromising' tag line for myself on Eos Airlines, the new NYC/London service that has been creating quite the buzz lately. Eos flies 757's usually outfitted for 220 people with…
Continue Reading →A couple of weeks ago, I flew out to London aboard the much-buzzed-about Virgin Upper Class. I'm surprised it took me this long to try Virgin, but it was indeed worth the wait. Being a major branding sucker, I was…
Continue Reading →Before I get into why my iPhone is wrapped up tight, on the way back to its maker, let me first say this: I love Apple. I love, love, love everything about them. I grew up on a Macintosh, started…
Continue Reading →Yesterday, PC World released their rankings of 2007's best sites, PCs, HDTVs, services and components. Aside from the fact that I'm only familiar with about a handful of the list's mentions (yeah, as it turns out, Canonical Ubuntu 7.04 is…
Continue Reading →I had the opportunity to take the BMW Hydrogen 7 car for a spin yesterday afternoon with an engineer from BMW in Munich-- something only open to TED attendees. While the experience wasn't exactly life changing, essentially everything inside and…
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