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I recently upgraded to a
Blackberry 8700g.
Email, cellphone, web
access, and PDA all-in-one.
I love Canon digicams.
I had an S330, then an S230,
now an SD400. They're solidly
made, they take great pictures,
and they're ultra-portable.
I've gone back to the dark
side. I once again have an iPod.
This time it's a 60gb iPod Photo.
The Dell Latitude D620
is my current work laptop.
It's a cleanly designed
Centrino Duo machine with
amazing battery
life and a nice screen.
My home laptop is a
15" Apple MacBook Pro
dual-booting both Mac OS X
and Windows XP. Hooray for
Boot Camp!
I recently upgraded to a 20"
Dell 2001fp LCD. It has great
image quality, and convenient
USB ports on the side.
My current PC is
a P4 system based on an Intel
D915GAG motherboard in an Antec
Sonata II case. 200gb Seagate
SATA hard drive, nVidia GeForce
6600GT video card, SB Live 5.1,
and NEC DVD-RW drive.
Just like with digicams,
I like Canon inkjet printers. My
i860 is quiet, fast, and produces
first-class color prints.
Not much to say here.
If you're an aviation enthusiast
and you have a fast PC,
go buy FS2004 now.
If you get hooked on
flight sims like I did, you'll want
a good flight controller. The
CH Products Flight Sim Yoke USB
is probably the best all-around
flight controller out there.
It ain't cheap, though....
My Current Reading List
Eastward to Tartary:
Travels in the Balkans,
the Middle East, and
the Caucasus
by Robert D. Kaplan
Falling Off the Map
by Pico Iyer
Great Bridge: The Epic
Story of the Building of
the Brooklyn Bridge
by David McCullough
The Polish Way: A Thousand
Year History of the Poles and
Their Culture
by Adam Zamoyski
Best of Europe 2006
by Rick Steves
2008
October (2 entries)August (1 entry)
June (1 entry)
May (2 entries)
February (2 entries)
2007
July (1 entry)June (7 entries)
April (5 entries)
February (4 entries)
January (11 entries)
2006
December (5 entries)November (3 entries)
October (10 entries)
September (6 entries)
August (4 entries)
July (7 entries)
June (5 entries)
May (7 entries)
April (15 entries)
March (9 entries)
February (7 entries)
January (15 entries)
2005
December (4 entries)November (6 entries)
October (15 entries)
September (4 entries)
August (9 entries)
July (18 entries)
June (10 entries)
May (12 entries)
April (19 entries)
March (18 entries)
February (10 entries)
January (20 entries)
2004
December (9 entries)November (21 entries)
October (9 entries)
September (15 entries)
August (7 entries)
July (7 entries)
June (8 entries)
May (10 entries)
April (5 entries)
March (12 entries)
February (18 entries)
January (9 entries)
| 10/30/2006 19:37 |
| I'm listening to BBC Radio Five Live, and there was a short news article about English football players who are addicted to online gambling and porn. One player said, and I quote "online gambling is so easy now, with laptops and computers...." Yes, because before laptops and computers, online gambling was a royal pain in the ass. |
| 10/13/2006 01:40 |
| I'm taking the train to Lodz... That needs a whole bunch of funny accent characters... "Woodge" is how it sounds... A magazine article that I read said Lodz is like what Krakow was 20 years ago..... Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. |
| 10/11/2006 09:15 |
| It just occurred to me that Gdansk is like a cross between Amsterdam and Tallinn.... Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. |
| 10/11/2006 00:08 |
| Yesterday I went to Malbork to see the castle of the Teutonic Knights. It was about a 45 minute train ride, and I went immediately after eating breakfast. I spent a few hours exploring the castle complex, which was a first-rate destination, then rode the train back in mid-afternoon. Interestingly, I rode the "wrong" train back to Gdansk. There are two different companies, one which operates the commuter trains in the Tri-City (Gdansk, Sopot, Gdynia), and the bigger Polish national railway. I bought a round trip ticket for the latter, but accidentally jumped on one of the commuter trains coming back. Luckily, there was no ticket inspector on that train--the first time this trip that there hasn't been one. Oh well, no harm, no foul.... Dinner last night in the hotel restaurant--the Polish equivalent of wiener schnitzel--was very good, and very cheap... Today I'm headed to the Gdansk shipyards, and just generally wandering around Gdansk some more.... |
| 10/10/2006 05:45 |
| My grandfather used to regularly explain the history of "the free city of Danzig," so it's only natural that I would eventually visit modern Gdansk. It was a five-hour train ride from Poznan, so I provisioned myself with a ham and cheese sandwich, a bottle of water, and a bar of chocolate. I also found Mountain Dew, in a fluorescent yellow bottle. That makes three foreign countries in which I've imbibed the golden liquid.... Anyway, I was sharing a compartment with three Polish guys younger than myself. One was a pudgy guy with a LiveStrong bracelet who read a book about Sobieski at the 1648 Battle of Vienna and ate four (!) sandwiches in rapid succession. The other two were teens who drank several smuggled beers, and retreated to the corridor to smoke. The trip was pleaantly boring, and I stepped off the train in Gdansk shortly before 3pm. I splurged for an 18zl taxi ride to my hotel, which is part of the Gdansk Academy of Music. After dumping off my stuff, I went for a walk and an ice cream. Now I'm back cooling my jets before dinner.... Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. |
| 10/10/2006 02:09 |
| A beer coaster here in Poland said "Piva Las Vegas." Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. |
| 10/08/2006 12:46 |
| I walked all over Poznan today, and found it to be a very pleasant medium-sized city. It has churches, parks, and other interesting buildings, yet it's not so big that it wears you out. After my giant breakfast, I wasn't hungry for lunch, so I just had a .5L beer in the hotel's brewery/bar instead. I walked some more, and had potato pancakes for dinner in the hotel restaurant. In all, this was a nice place to start my trip. |
| 10/08/2006 12:44 |
| I have just eaten possibly the greatest breakfast in the history of breakfasts. And I don't even like breakfast. I wandered downstairs for breakfast here at my hotel, and got there before anyone else. A friendly Polish guy apologized for not having everything ready, but I couldn't tell. There were a half dozen types of fresh fruit, carefully sliced and arranged. There were fancy delicate pastries, several kinds of cheese, and some amazing looking "roll-ups" made from chicken breast, ham, cheese, peppers, and other stuff. Platter after platter of stuff beautifully arranged, and no expense spared--all in a pretty modest-sized hotel. I ate and ate, all while the guy kept bringing out more stuff. Five different pitchers of juice, three different cereals, an ice-filled bowl of yogurt cups, a basket of various breads and a fancy Philips toaster; there was no stopping him. He kept going with bottles of water (both sparkling and still), coffee, tea, and shiny trays of silverware. Wow. All this in a $78 a night hotel in Poland.... Color me impressed..... Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. |
| 10/07/2006 09:56 |
| Well, I made it. O'Hare to Heathrow, the Tube into London, a bus out to Stansted, a flight to Poznan, a bus ride into the city, then a long walk to my hotel. The Brovaria is very nice, and my room overlooks the old town square. The town hall is bang in the middle, and there are lots of pleasantly noisy Polish people wandering around. I have a little laundry to do, then I'm going downstairs for beer and food. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. |
| 10/02/2006 12:27 |
| Now I have hotel reservations for my Polish adventure.
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