Has anyone seen my bag?
Memo to self: Next time you travel, heed the suggestion that you pack essentials — toothbrush, deodorant, change of underwear — in your carry-on, not in your checked bag . . .
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Memo to self: Before going to sleep in a hotel room, always check to make sure the bedside clock-radio isn’t set to go off at 5 a.m.
View ArticleModeration in all things
Memo to self: Better pace myself when Quake 4 comes out. (Spotted on BuzzMachine, which had a superb headline: ‘He loses.’)
View ArticleCell phones — and Green Day — rock
Memo to self: Get a cell phone with a better camera in it. Dwight Silverman / Chronicle Green Day at the Toyota Center, Aug. 19, 2005. Tonight’s Green Day / Jimmy Eat World show was the first time in a...
View ArticleMemo to self: Avoid addiction
Memo to self: When someone says, “Hey, try this cool computer game, it’s way addictive,” and you’re trying to stay away from computers over a long holiday weekend, don’t say, “OK, but just this once.”...
View ArticleFollow-up: Why they call it ‘beta’
Memo to self: When writing a blog entry in a new, unfinished, preview-of-a-beta Web browser, save frequently. Yes, teacher, Bill Gates ate my homework. Argh. Something I’m doing causes IE7 windows to...
View ArticleStuck inside of Charlotte with the Houston blues again
Memo to self: Don’t fly US Airways again if I can help it. Greetings, TechBlog readers. I’m almost back from my unplugged vacation and ready to party. However, at the moment I’m sitting in a hotel room...
View ArticleMemo to self: Do not drop the Mighty Mouse
Apple’s Mighty Mouse apparently is not so mighty. It was sitting next to my MacBook, and I knocked it off my desk. It hit the hard plastic chair mat on the floor, and came apart. Ack! Here I came to...
View ArticleMemo to self: Take the batteries out of a mouse you’re not using
I've been using trackpads almost exclusively with my computers, and had not touched either mouse in a while. I went to change the batteries in the one on my home office desk and discovered they had...
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