I picked up the book Super Nintendo expecting to read about the greatest gaming console of all time. Instead, I got a thoughtful chronicle of the greatest gaming company of all time. So, still a worthwhile read—particularly for video…
There would be 15 years' worth of posts to migrate. This was something that I had mulled over for the last few years. WordPress (WP), the blogging-cum-content platform that was initially released in 2003, has gotten too unwieldy for…
I call three bayside cities home: Hong Kong, Vancouver, and San Francisco. They also happen to be three of the most expensive places in the world to live [1]. Housing prices in these three cities consistently outpace that of adjacent…
Star Trek's Future Now The original Star Trek (TOS) TV series of the '60s was a bit before my time; I grew up with Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) reruns on Canadian broadcast TV in the…
I just spent three weeks—mostly weekends, but also waiting days for email responses from customer support—trying to settle my son's Xbox account. All he wanted to do was play Minecraft on his desktop PC. But neither…
Recently, I've taken to watching a YouTube channel critiquing mansions. He goes over many of the flaws he finds in these ultra-luxury mansion tours in an entertaining and educational way: interior design mishaps, poorly-planned home layouts, architectural mediocrity,…
