Reviews

Lockdown Restaurant Review: Glover Home

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I think that we all have to agree that different people like different foods. There are, for example, people who eat vegetables and other items dug up from the dirt!  I find this behavior unconscionable; however, I have to acknowledge that different people have different attitudes. Just like people’s attitudes about food differ, so too … Read more

The Instacart Experience

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We completed our first Instacart transaction today, and it was satisfactory; however, there were a few things that we either had to hunt for or discovered in the process.  For the purposes of passing this on to others, here’s an account of our experience and what we learned. Let’s walk through the experience first. You’ll … Read more

iMovie for iPad2

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Some time back, I wrote a review of iMovie on the iPhone 4. This was shortly after the app was first available and I didn’t give it a very good review. It was buggy, limited and difficult to control with precision.

Now, with the advent of the iPad 2, Apple has revamped iMovie to be a universal iPhone 4/iPad 2 app. I’ve recently had the opportunity to try out the iPad version in a real-world situation.

We recently had an employee appreciation event at my work and a co-worker and I used our iPhone 4’s to record video and pictures of the event. I then proceeded, at the event, to edit the video on my iPad.

Combined with editing my last vlog entry, I reel I have a good basic grasp of the new iPad iMovie experience.

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OSX Time Machine – Brilliant or Bust?

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Aren’t backups a wonderful thing? As an IT professional, I can tell you that most people never backup their computers. Organizations are a bit different. Most recognize the need for backing up, but fewer actually test their backups. In OSX Leopard, Apple recognized that people don’t backup their computers. Further, they recognized that, increasingly, our … Read more

Primeval – Season 2 – Episode 1 – Review

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Primeval is back for its second series. Last time, we were left on a cliffhanger, where Prof Cutter, having fallen in love with Claudia Brown, returns from the Permian to discover that time has change, and Claudia no longer exists.

How could they “fix” that one? Find out after the jump.

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Sounds Like Doctor Who

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I found this review I’d (nearly) completed back in 2000 of the early Big Finish audio adventures. I’d just discovered them at Forbidden Planet in London and purchased the first 10 before returning to the states. For your amusement, and my archiving of writing projects, here’s my year 2000 take on Big Finish, in days … Read more

Doctor Who – Utopia – The Sound of Drums – Last of the Time Lords – Review (sort of)

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Utopia, The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords was the three-part finale to the Tenth Doctor’s second season, and featured the resurrection of the Master, the Doctor’s greatest foe. I’m not going to do my usual breakdown on these episodes, suffice to say that Utopia, even with its rather pathetic representation of … Read more

A pleasant surprise at SOGO

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One of the things I love about Taipei at the plethora of bakeries. Maybe it’s because ovens aren’t as common in homes here, but you’re never very far from fresh bread in Taipei. Bakeries back home suck, to put it kindly. Most of them are just supermarket bakeries, the others make boring breads or worse, … Read more