My RSS feed was broken for the past many months, and nobody bothered to tell me. So when I fixed it yesterday, Aweber — the email newsletter provider — picked up a bunch of new posts all at once, and blasted my subscribers with all of them. So, sorry about that. Hopefully you use Gmail…Continue Reading…
I don’t have any photos in Amsterdam yet, so here’s a random photo of “Watch Surgery” at the new Westfield Mall in London. I finally arrived in Amsterdam, flying in from London. Getting here was one of the most challenging travel experiences thus far. Fortunately, it worked out in the end, and I learned many…Continue Reading…
On Sep 9, 2011, I withdrew 40 GBP from a Southern Railway ATM at the Brighton train station which offers “free cash withdrawals” (but, of course, your bank may charge a fee). How much did it end up costing me? I looked it up by logging into my credit union account online. The withdrawal amount…Continue Reading…
There’s a BT Home Hub in the trash here at Journeys Hostel. (This isn’t a photo of the actual one I’m looking at. I didn’t want to bother taking and transferring a photo.) I picked it up out of the trash to get a closer look at it. Model:Â 038194. I don’t know why it’s in…Continue Reading…
It’s Sunday, Sep 4 – Day 27 in Europe. Journeys Hostel provides breakfast from 8-10am, but it’s just bread, jam, butter, cereal, and milk. Due to likely lactose intolerance, I’m avoiding milk; so I just had some wheat bread toast with marmalade and butter. While eating, I talked with a guy who’s visiting Brighton for…Continue Reading…
I’m here in the seaside city of Brighton, England, at the fascinating Mini Maker Faire. Lots of enthusiastic exhibitors are showing off the stuff that they made. One of my favorites so far is the 3D chair modeling app. It will be open sourced in about 3 months, and allow people to easily model their…Continue Reading…