Let me start off by saying I hate bluetooth on laptops.  I love my bluetooth headset for my cell phone, but for laptops, connecting any type of device, namely a cellphone, is just a freakin’ nightmare.  When I previously had a Toshiba M200, I solved the problem by replacing the Toshiba stack with the Microsoft […]

I met Niels quite a number of years ago (maybe 4?) when he interviewed for a position at Microsoft.  I was the assigned “entertainer” to take him out to dinner for the evening.  It wasn’t by chance that I was chosen — Niels is actually a friend of Craig.. actually more than a friend, they […]

I previously struggled with an issue where I was unable to hibernate when my laptop had 1GB or more of RAM in it. Putting my machine into standby worked probably 50% of the time. When hibernate or standby failed, I would get this crazy “Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete this API” from […]

Amsterdam was such an amazing place.  I fell in love right away almost immediately upon setting foot on the street out of the cab. It reminded me so much of Vancouver it was eerie. Each street was filled with a mixture of parks and residences, even at the city center.  The sweeping and never ending […]

I got back a few days ago from my travel adventures in Hyderabad and Amsterdam.   Amsterdam was my last stop where I spent 2 days with Didi before returning to Seattle.  In retrospect, the decision to stay was good to help “soft-land” my jet lag as I eased back from teh 13.5 hour time […]