sixtyPercent: Cochlear Implants, Aviation, Technlology, and Philosophy 2005/11
Banned in Bangkok
I've just learned that my cousin's excellent book, Bangkok Inside Out, has been banned in Thailand. This is a real shame, as the book is essentially a love-letter to the city.
This is Daniel's second book in what I hope is a series. The first, Jakarta Inside Out covers the culture of that city in much the same way, and is (still) available in Indonesia and worldwide.
Both books feature awesome pictures and great prose -- typically one-topic per page -- on day-to-day real life cultural aspects of these cities. Most of the material taps into the true goings on of the people of Jakarta and Bangkok -- the kind of stuff you only learn from living there for years (as Daniel and his co-author have).
by David Creemer : 2005/11/22 : Categories life books : 0 trackbacks : 0 comments (permalink)
MissingSync Version 5
I've spent eight hours over the last two days struggling with Mark/Space's Missing Sync for Palm OS on my wife's Mac.
I upgraded from version four for primarily two reasons: I wanted the new memo application which has the ability to search across all notes (which it should have had from the beginning IMHO), and I was eager to benefit from its use of Mac OS X's sync framework. I use iSync and the OS X/Tiger sync framework to sync with .Mac and with my Nokia 6600 smart phone with excellent results.
Unfortunately, I personally have had hours of trouble with Missing Sync version 5. My wife has a lot of data in here calendar -- but not over the top a lot. My first attempts at syncing just failed outright after 20 minutes or so of waiting. I read a bit on the support mailing list, and taking some advice from there, purged all of her data more than two years old. I cleaned all of the data from her Treo -- and tried again, being sure to check "Desktop overwrites handheld". That seemed to result in one good sync, but examining the data resulted in duplicated untimed events. Lots of duplicated untimed events. Actually not duplicated -- quadrupled -- two years worth. One sync actually asked me to manually resolve more than 5000 conflicts (and no, the "resolve similar conflicts like this" check box didn't help).
After two days I have had not one good sync.
I will be removing this program, and asking for a refund.
by David Creemer : 2005/11/08 : Categories technology : 0 trackbacks : 0 comments (permalink)
