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{ Monthly Archives } July 2005

Tungsten Update

Reg­u­lar read­ers will remem­ber that I got a Tung­sten T2 last year. It worked fine, except for one prob­lem — the digit­izer kept drift­ing, and I had to recal­ib­rate it every couple of days. Even­tu­ally the screen star­ted to cycle con­tinu­ously on an inter­mit­tent basis. I tried the tips on the Palm web site, which […]

Visibility Online

One unex­pec­ted but totally wel­come side-effect of blogs and instant mes­saging these days is know­ing that people you care about are ok. Just being able to see their names and their post­ings while the effects of what happened in Lon­don sunk in made a big dif­fer­ence to my day. My con­dol­ences to all those for […]

London

The bombs in Lon­don have proven again that Lon­don­ers are resi­li­ent, that they have learnt from the WWII blitz and the years of IRA attacks, how to cope with ter­ror that would bring other cit­ies to a screech­ing halt. And yet, I can’t help but worry what the reac­tions will be. Will the gov­ern­ments of […]

The Perfect G&T

My friend Sally has the recipe for the per­fect gin and tonic.