Mid-life toys

Putting this mid-life crisis toy on next year's wish list...

iPod liberation

While doing an install on my PC I lost a bunch of musical tracks, subsequently recovered through SharePod. Phew.

Yup, it's a checker cab

Call for your next SFO run.

Bay Area Checker Taxi
Toni (510) 612-6546


(Eddie (510) 410-0774)

Party like it's 1992

Hey! Guess where I'm blogging from?

THE PLANE!

Wow, that felt good. Just like when they first started putting phones on airplanes. And instead of $8.95/minute, now it's $29.95 for the duration of this 11-hour flight from Hong Kong to San Francisco.

The cool part is that bandwidth-heavy services work pretty well. So far I've tried out...

GMail
Google Local
Google Video (!)
Google Earth works albeit with some massive latency

Now, if I could only find someone to talk to via voice...

ADDED: Skype works, Google Talk works. Whooo boy, there goes that very last bit of offline sanctuary in this world...

More Isabella on Google Video

This better not be one of those swear words that Lucy's been teaching her.

Be the One

More and more of my inbound bandwidth is being taken up by Google Video footages. Someone should get this guy a movie role!

Sushi Misinformation

Fine Google Video selection of the day...

Your very own Michael Bolton

This is a brilliant holiday gift idea. Personalize some really cheesy music!

Signs around the world

I must go add my favorite set of universal icons: