Rufus Blooter

I ponied up for a good one, a Fujitsu S1500M. Despite free delivery from the UK version of buy.com, it arrived less than 20 hours after orde...

Gibson's latest: highly recommended. Good to read Pattern Recognition and Spook Country beforehand, but not mandatory. In fact, I read...

Evernote makes me want to buy a scanner. Bizarrely, some institutions still insist on transferring information on paper. This does me no goo...

I've picked up a possibly bad habit of buying shirts from tm lewin. They are always on sale, 5 for a dollar or something like that. They...

Woodstock happens, then turns into a rather pathetic legend for decaying boomers. Glastonbury happens, everyone decides it's pretty fun...

There's another music festival this weekend in Victoria Park. I love these. Nice crowds, lively music. The festival walls weren't ph...

I've noticed that the iPad versions of apps for which there are also desktop versions tend to have much nicer interfaces (e.g. Evernote,...

Started using Evernote a few weeks ago. Its utility increases exponentially with use, so I've made a good-faith effort to seed it with i...

Inception : recommended for viewing in a theatre Let The Right One In : recommended for viewing subtitled version, especially before the a...

Occasionally the chalk sign for the neighborhood deli will announce "Burrata back in stock!" I never paid much attention. I didn...

Finally got HDTV a few weeks ago. Wasn't sure I'd notice a difference. I notice a difference. Some things look fantastic. Sport...

So I've been using a MiFi thingy (take a 3G phone, remove the voice functionality, and turn it into a wifi router) and it generally work...