As is customary for me, when I travel abroad for an extended period of time I tend to get a local SIM card to put into my phone, so I can have a local number, some local SMS, and more importantly data!  It makes it easier to communicate with the locals and verify AirBnB information.  Luckily, in recent years, T-Mobile allows for free 2G (GPRS) data roaming, which made things a little

Funny gamercat comic strip from this past week.  Can slay tons of beasts in games...but not a spider.

A while back, during a Humble Store sale, I got Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China (as well as India and Russia). I had downloaded the China version of the Chronicles when I first got the game, but it had quickly gone into disuse since I was focusing mostly on Star Trek Online and on Bully on the xbox. While I was on vacation, with little access to good wifi, I ended up going to the only

Back in the early 2000s when I listened to JPOP and KPOP this was one of the first songs I came across.  Still don't speak much Japanese, still don't understand the lyrics, still love this song ;-) The video is that great in terms of audio (as most live recorded performances), but it gives you an idea :-)

Nintendo's new gaming console seems like a mix of mobile and at-home console gaming.  Seems pretty interesting, and it reminds me of the stuff that OQO tried to do with computing. Let's see how it goes :)

Another song from MTV spain discovered while taking a break from museums. This seems a lot like one of those songs that is in mind but the music video makes little sense. I tuned in during the spin-exercise scene and I was like "WTF?!" Spain Side to Side y by Ariana Grande feat. Nicki Minaj

This comic strip of Jurassic Trek makes fun of...well... not sure of this one... (original archive here)

Well...that's a bummer! Last night I got a message from LogMeIn - the creators of online storage platform Cubby - telling me that they are killing off their product... I guess  I need to move all of my files from there to Box.com.  While I use Box.com, I preferred the user interface of Cubby.  It was much more intuitive IMHO. Here is the text of the announcement: Today, LogMeIn

Alright...I guess it's back to work time!  Still thinking on vacation though.  Here is a parade that we caught in Barcelona on our second day there (we missed something on the first day because it took forever to get to our place from the airport). This is the parade called Cerca Villa de doc dels diavles petits, which is part of the La Merce celebrations. This is video 1 of 2.

Να και ένα καινούργιο (για μένα) κλίπ για ένα τραγούδι που μου υπενθύμισε το iTunes...