I worked for 5 years in the insurance industry and one of the important points in the theory of insurance is that you should not insure anything if you can afford to withstand a total loss. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer or a financial professional. If you take any of my advice just assume that...

I’ve been trying to see what works best for typing on the iPad. When I bought it I also got the keyboard dock. After using it once or twice I found that I didn’t like the fact that it held the iPad in a portrait orientation (tall rather than like a normal widescreen TV). I’ve...

There is some good news first, this is the first time I have posted to the blog from iPad. I’m using the keyboard with the stand and it works very well (yes, the hardware keyboard supports the dvorak layout for any fellow typing geeks). My only thought is that it might be better to use...

40 Things I have picked up along my voyage: My first memory is Look Park in Northampton. Not much of a lesson, but it was the day I was “switched on”. Read – My parents got me into reading. At the local library, the Berkshire Athenaeum, I had a game card that would be stamped once for...

Back in January of 2005, I started podcasting. Since I was playing with a new technology, I didn’t give much thought to what the show should be about, so I just copied Don Imus and did my own talk radio show. It had a pretty good run, at it’s peak around 2007 it was getting around...