Blog from the Loft

My other car is in the body shop to replace its front bumper. Casualty of parking downtown. For a rental, Hertz offered me a chance to drive the Toyota Prius. Why not?
This is a quick review of this car. It drives very nicely. I cannot tell the difference under normal driving, city and highway. I [...]

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With my new Sony Clie TH55 PDA, I need to re-open the issue of finding a good piece of organizer software for the desktop and the palmtop. The top choices are Life Balance and ShadowPlan. Unfortunately neither are perfect.
I have been playing with Life Balance desktop for awhile. Their desktop software is much better than [...]

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This isjust too cool !

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It works ! I am sitting in a Starbucks in Frankfurt, logged onto my American t-mobile wifi account. Since I have a monthly wifi add-on plan with t-mobile, I get unlimited wifi access in Europe as well. Global access is here. Hurrah !!
For more info, see my original attempt earlier this month.

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I used to think that all the new cellphones with non standard keypads are stupid. Are all the phone users very familier with the standard 3×3 numeric keypads and would be screaming trying to use the non square or other variation of keypads from the likes of Nokia and Sony?
I changed my mind. Looking at [...]

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t-Mobile (from U.S.A) has just announced that their wi-fi service/account will be available overseas. i.e. If you have a wi-fi plan with t-mobile USA, your account allows you to use wi-fi from their european locations. That information is very hard to find on their site. It is described here.
I happen to have a t-mobile account [...]

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On my last trip to Hong Kong in Feb, I traded in my T610 GSM world phone for a brand new z600. I like the flip phone format better than the so call “candy bar” format.

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