blog.awill.me

blog.awill.me

01 Nov 2011

(yet another) new phone.

HP wanted to compete with Apple and Google. Rather than just make hardware and license Windows, they wanted to own the complete product, …
09 Oct 2011

Flight to Bangalore

This week HP sent me to Bangalore, India. That meant flying from Salt Lake to New York (JFK), to Paris, to Bangalore. All in all, around 22 …
30 Sep 2011

ebook readers

If you live in the USA, there are really only two choices for a traditional ebook reader. Barns and Noble’s Nook, and Amazon’s Kindle. Both …
13 Sep 2011

Windshield replacement

I was driving a couple of weeks ago when an eighteen-wheeler pulled in front of me. A rock flew up, and put a huge rock chip on my …
15 Jun 2011

Sprint customer support

I’ve had my Sprint account for about 6 years now. I’ve been very happy with the prices and reception. Their customer service, however, has …
04 May 2011

car salesmen roundup

So, I’ve been to 3 different places to test drive cars (2 dealers and 1 private) in the last two days. I asked the following questions …
28 Apr 2011

GNOME vs Ubuntu

With today’s release of Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu has officially diverged from the default GNOME. For those of you who don’t know, in the open …
03 Apr 2011

protecting personal information

For reasons that aren’t important, I bought 2 used mobile phones yesterday (for family members). The sellers were both in their 20s and I …