We are finally back from our 10-day vacation to London and Paris. I wanted to summarize our experiences quickly before memory starts to fade, so photos will have to wait are still being uploaded.
London (September 7 to September 11)
Day 0 (September 8 )
We flew via KLM airline to London, transiting at Amsterdam. We then took the Heathrow [...]
Archive for the ‘Impressions’ Category
25 Sep
London Paris 2009
3 Jul
Transformers 2: Trying Too Hard
I loved the first Transformers movie, so we went to watch the sequel in theater today. I wasn’t expecting much going in as I had read tons of negative reviews, but I was still hoping for a pleasant surprise. Unfortunately the critics were correct, Transformers 2 was just a summer action movie and [...]
7 Jun
Palm Pre impressions
I played with a Palm Pre today in a Sprint store. It was actually my second trip to the store this weekend – the first time I simply drove past after seeing the 10+ people lining near the door. Anyhoo, here are my initial thoughts:
The Pre is small compared to iPhone.
The screen was [...]
2 Jun
Terminator Salvation thoughts
I watched Terminator Salvation today. Some thoughts:
Noticed Skynet’s computer lab for humans. Same question as others had asked: why?!
In the original Terminator movie, every one was shooting lasers. In Terminator Salvation, people and machines were all using bullets. It’s not like the time lines are that far apart either, I mean, [...]
24 Jan
Windows 7 beta
Yesterday I installed Windows 7 beta on my home laptop overwriting the old Vista. The new Windows 7 task bar is nice, but other than that, I don’t perceive much ground breaking improvements over Vista. Perhaps deep down it consumes less resources, maybe.
One thing that annoyed me was the slow file open time. It was [...]
30 Nov
Second iPhone App Store purchase: BeejiveIM
A few days ago I bought my first iPhone application. While it was only $0.99, I was concerned that it would be the start of a downward purchasing spiral. My worry was well founded – today I made my second purchase, an IM software called BeejiveIM. The price was $9.99, down from $15.99, part of [...]
29 Nov
Wireless Sports – bad, really bad
I bought the Wireless Sports TV game during the Black Friday sale today. It’s a 5-in-1 wireless game comprised of bowling, tennis, boxing, baseball, and golf. I paid $20, down from $40.
After putting in all 8 of my own AA batteries – 4 in the main unit and 2 in each controller set [...]
8 Nov
Partitioned Wind
Our MSI Wind netbook arrived on Thursday. It worked as advertised. One notable thing I’d like to mention is that the MSI Wind came with pre-partitioned hard disk, C:\ for OS and D:\ for data. Nice.
5 Sep
California Shuttle Bus impressions
Cheaper than Flying
Last weekend I used the service offered by California Shuttle Bus to travel to and from Los Angeles (moblog entries one, two, and three). I paid $45 for each 6-hour ride during the Labor Day long weekend, for a total of $90, which was very good considering that the cheapest plane [...]
16 Aug
Infiniti G35 thoughts
I’d like to reflect on my Infiniti G35 after 2.5 months of ownership. Might as well, since today I just completed two ownership surveys from independent parties. (J.D. Powers even included a $1 bill in the survey forms!)
Aside: Why didn’t I get any such surveys when I bought my two Hondas? Do marketing firms only [...]
