Cheese Whiz anyone?

Who doesn’t love cheese in a can? The “cheese” I had my eye on I asked my little cousin to bring me some Cheese Whiz  (in a can, obviously) from California for a Wayne’s World themed movie night. Totally, excellent! After searching for the iconic canned cholesterol in three stores- he settled instead on cheesy [...]

Tan like the Royals?

From Zero to Hero to Sensation

How does a relatively unknown mobile handset brand go from zero to Hero to Sensation in just a couple years? I went along to the HTC Sensation launch in London to chat with President of HTC EMEA Florian Seiche about how the company went from an ODM to knocking Nokia off the top spot. However, [...]

First Look: HTC Sensation

The brand new HTC Sensation features a 1.2Ghz dual core processor, runs Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and HTC’s Sense 3.0. The camera is 8-megapixels and records in 1080p high definition video at 30 frames per second. There’s also a front-facing 1.3MP camera. The HTC Sensation has a 4.3″ qHD touchscreen display (quarter high definition resolution of [...]

Qualcomm’s Way of the Dragon Retreat

Komodo dragons are really interesting.. Qualcomm chipsets…are less so.

Brevity is a virtue that Opera understands

“Good things, when short, are twice as good.” - Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom No one can be bothered to write anything substantial these days.. or maybe we’re just too busy to read. Either way, services like Twitter that limit characters to 140 prove just how important brevity is in today’s world – and [...]

Ode to Shoreditch

I wrote Ode to Shoreditch when I first moved to the area 5.5 years ago.  I found it again when I was clearing out my hard drive a couple weeks back. Not much has changed so I thought I’d share it with y’all. Ode to Shoreditch Oh Shoreditch…… So new, so old, so many whores [...]

Hong Kong

From markets consisting of bagged fish, caged birds, bearded lizards & kittens to sneakers, used electronics and knockoffs.. Hong Kong has it all..and more! See the full gallery on Posterous Photos courtesy of @richardlai

Royal Wedding Phone! I’m buying 3!

As far as kitsch goes, the Royal Wedding Phone is high on the list. Everyone’s trying to make a quick buck from the wedding of second to the throne and Kate Middleton. And can you really blame them?   The £20 million regal affair will bring in loads of cash as people (mainly Americans) fly [...]

Tim Bray @ Androidland

Some may say Androidland is one of the best attractions this year at Mobile World Congress. I check out the Honeycomb and Cupcake smothies and talk with Android Developer Advocate, Tim Bray.