{{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}
Just published: “My Short Century” by Lorna Arnold
Author Archive for geoff
After years of work by many people, we’ve finally published my mother’s memoirs. “My Short Century” by Lorna Arnold is now available from Lulu. A Kindle version is on the way, and both of them should show up on Amazon quite soon. {{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at [...]
Yesterday I had an unrecoverable file system error on my MacBook Air running 10.8 Preview 2. Disk Utility instructed me to back up what files I could and then reformat. Since I had an up-to-date Time Machine backup, I wasn’t worried. I reformatted, and reinstalled the OS. However, I discovered that the OS installation had [...]
{{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}
Quick tip: if your Mac disk goes south…
Yesterday I finally had enough. I headed over to the local AT&T store, indulged myself in a mild rant about the POS (Samsung Infuse) that they’d sold me last summer, and then paid through the nose to upgrade it early to an iPhone 4S. Since I don’t intend to replace this one any time soon, [...]
{{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}
Back into the walled garden, with enthusiasm (and an emptier wallet)
I’ve just left Yahoo, mostly because it became clear that I wouldn’t be able to do what I was originally hired to do. Frustrating, but never mind. So now I’m checking out the alternatives (of which there are quite a few), and in the meantime I’ve joined US Venture Partners as an entrepreneur-in-residence. {{This is [...]
{{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}
New year, new direction
Well, 2011 has given way to the New Year, and AT&T have failed to fulfill their promise to upgrade the Android software on all of the 4G phones which they sold in 2011. Back in the summer I embarked on an experiment to see what life outside Apple’s walled garden would be like. The results [...]
{{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}
Time to root – or dump – my AT&T Samsung Infuse 4G phone
Just after sunset this evening. (Warning: full size image is 5.8MB.) {{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}Sunset
{{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}
Sunset
I had hoped, almost selfishly, that Christopher Hitchens’ cancer might spare him for a little longer, so that we could enjoy more of his wonderful writing. Alas, no. Hitch was just about a year older than me, and like me he moved to the USA in 1981. We were both socialists in our youth, and [...]
{{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}
Christopher Hitchens
I got my Kindle Fire yesterday, unboxed it, and… I was horribly disappointed. The out-of-the-box experience was awful: slow, inconsistent, stuff timing out, difficulty connecting to the network. I put it aside, because I had a busy work schedule. This morning I picked it up again. Still unusable. I checked the online help resources, FAQs… [...]
{{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}
Kindle Fire and Apple Airport Extreme
If all goes according to plan, this will be my penultimate posting on the subject of my cataract surgery. The second (left eye) procedure has gone even more smoothly than the first. Intra-ocular pressure didn’t fluctuate, and recovery was uneventful. At the end of my post-op checkup on Wednesday, they tested my vision as 20/20 [...]
{{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}
Penultimate vision posting
My HP TouchPad has finally arrived. It looks beautiful. (Of course, it looks like every other black rectangular tablet with rounded corners – are Apple’s lawyers listening?) Unfortunately, I can’t set up email on it. My IMAP configuration for geoffarnold.com, which works on my MacOS, iOS, Android, and various other clients, won’t work in webOS. [...]
{{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}
HP TouchPad arrived
This morning I had the second cataract surgery, replacing the lens of my left eye with a synthetic replacement. It was uneventful, which is — in its way — an interesting comment on human adaptability. I was surprised by how a procedure that I had experienced for the first time in my life a few [...]
{{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}
“We’re doing the left eye, correct?” “Right… er, I mean yes, correct, left!”
Tim Bray just posted a nice blog piece about his new phone: a pre-production Nexus Galaxy running Android 4.0 (code-named “Ice Cream Sandwich”). There are some really nice features in this release, which is, of course, what we’ve come to expect. These days, competition in many markets is driven by features, and less attention is [...]
{{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}
Feature driven competition, and the Android problem
This was a truly serendipitous discovery. Crank the volume before the kick around 6:45…. {{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}Just discovered: wonderful Underworld performance from 1999
{{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}
Just discovered: wonderful Underworld performance from 1999
Yesterday I had the last post-op inspection for my right eye, and got the paperwork for the countdown to next Tuesday’s procedure for my left. By now, two of the eye drops had run out, but I was still taking the steroid Durezol. My doctor decided that by now it was doing slightly more harm [...]
{{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}
Eyes front! (A quick update on the…)
Wall Street and even some Apple fanbois were disappointed that Apple chose to release a minor upgrade to the iPhone 4 rather than a kick-ass, “this changes everything” iPhone 5. But I was delighted. Let me explain. A few months ago, I decided to see what life was like on the other side of the [...]
{{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}
Thank you, Apple, for not releasing the iPhone 5
We went out to dinner this evening, and by the time we drove home it was twilight and all the cars had their headlights on. And that really sucked: my myopic left eye was overwhelmed with glare from every light source, and it really interfered with the image from my “new” eye. I reduced the [...]
{{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}
One quick eye-related update
Planet Atheism buttons
FAQ (includes joining info)
RSS feed
Email subscription
