Funny Vent Smell in Lenovo v100
There was a best-I-can-describe-it portable heater smell emanating from the vent of my Lenovo v100 a few days ago. I’d been leaving the laptop on and leaving my glass a tad too close to the vent and caused 2 auto shutdowns due to overheating (this is from retrospect). The most likely possibility was that perhaps [...]
Read MoreMy First Car
One of the few skills I do not possess is driving. To most people’s surprise I never took my licence. Well, that’s incorrect. I did take my basic and passed, but failed my advanced theory. Never took it again. Actually I have a licence to ride a motorcycle up to 200cc and had owned a [...]
Read MoreVideo Games in the New Millennium
I must confess it has been years since I have gamed on anything other than a PC (and now iPod Touch). Video games have come a long way since I was a kid some 30 years ago. I was one of the earliest players of GameBoy, well, when it was just GameBoy. To me, the [...]
Read MoreDeath by Spam
I finally bade farewell to my Yahoo email, setting it into its grave. It was a long and fruitful relationship but spammers got to it. I had used it as my website contact years ago but quickly switched to typing the various spam avoidance configurations such as emailaddress[at]yahoo.com, emailaddress[at]yahoo dot com, and even emailaddressNOSPAM[at]yahoo dot [...]
Read MoreI Felt For Your iPhone
While checking out The Garden Slug, really the nicest diner I’ve ever been to (great food, fun peeps, neat decor, pet-friendly too although my cats will probably bolt to the kitchen first), I caught a glimpse of this neat blog… and spied a familiar face (yup, that one that greets me every morning to tell [...]
Read MoreBest iPhone Apps for Toddlers Part 2
Here are the funnest, most educational apps to date for toddlers and childlike adults since our last review in February 2009. 1. Elephant Song Wonderfully interactive, beautifully simple pictures, and a lovely song. When my son first played it, it was my morning anthem for a few weeks. After a while, I couldn’t get the [...]
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Christina Sng worked as a web developer, information architect, account executive, producer, technical writer, and usability consultant in the 10 years (that's 30 years in Internet time!) she brought bread home. She has since retired to raise her children but still spends most of her waking hours on the net, no thanks to Apple. Here are some of her adventures.
