Geoff Arnold

Just published: “My Short Century” by Lorna Arnold

geoff — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:38:56 +0000

After years of work by many people, we’ve finally published my mother’s memoirs. “My Short Century” by Lorna Arnold is now available from Lulu. A Kindle version is on the way, and both of them should show up on Amazon quite soon. {{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at [...]

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Just published: “My Short Century” by Lorna Arnold

Quick tip: if your Mac disk goes south…

geoff — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:47:09 +0000

Yesterday I had an unrecoverable file system error on my MacBook Air running 10.8 Preview 2. Disk Utility instructed me to back up what files I could and then reformat. Since I had an up-to-date Time Machine backup, I wasn’t worried. I reformatted, and reinstalled the OS. However, I discovered that the OS installation had [...]

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Quick tip: if your Mac disk goes south…

Back into the walled garden, with enthusiasm (and an emptier wallet)

geoff — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:07:28 +0000

Yesterday I finally had enough. I headed over to the local AT&T store, indulged myself in a mild rant about the POS (Samsung Infuse) that they’d sold me last summer, and then paid through the nose to upgrade it early to an iPhone 4S. Since I don’t intend to replace this one any time soon, [...]

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Back into the walled garden, with enthusiasm (and an emptier wallet)

New year, new direction

geoff — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:56:42 +0000

I’ve just left Yahoo, mostly because it became clear that I wouldn’t be able to do what I was originally hired to do. Frustrating, but never mind. So now I’m checking out the alternatives (of which there are quite a few), and in the meantime I’ve joined US Venture Partners as an entrepreneur-in-residence. {{This is [...]

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New year, new direction

Time to root – or dump – my AT&T Samsung Infuse 4G phone

geoff — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:53:40 +0000

Well, 2011 has given way to the New Year, and AT&T have failed to fulfill their promise to upgrade the Android software on all of the 4G phones which they sold in 2011. Back in the summer I embarked on an experiment to see what life outside Apple’s walled garden would be like. The results [...]

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Time to root – or dump – my AT&T Samsung Infuse 4G phone

Sunset

geoff — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:05:10 +0000

Just after sunset this evening. (Warning: full size image is 5.8MB.) {{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}Sunset

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Sunset

Christopher Hitchens

geoff — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:00:04 +0000

I had hoped, almost selfishly, that Christopher Hitchens’ cancer might spare him for a little longer, so that we could enjoy more of his wonderful writing. Alas, no. Hitch was just about a year older than me, and like me he moved to the USA in 1981. We were both socialists in our youth, and [...]

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Christopher Hitchens

Kindle Fire and Apple Airport Extreme

geoff — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:19:49 +0000

I got my Kindle Fire yesterday, unboxed it, and… I was horribly disappointed. The out-of-the-box experience was awful: slow, inconsistent, stuff timing out, difficulty connecting to the network. I put it aside, because I had a busy work schedule. This morning I picked it up again. Still unusable. I checked the online help resources, FAQs… [...]

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Kindle Fire and Apple Airport Extreme

Penultimate vision posting

geoff — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:09:27 +0000

If all goes according to plan, this will be my penultimate posting on the subject of my cataract surgery. The second (left eye) procedure has gone even more smoothly than the first. Intra-ocular pressure didn’t fluctuate, and recovery was uneventful. At the end of my post-op checkup on Wednesday, they tested my vision as 20/20 [...]

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Penultimate vision posting

HP TouchPad arrived

geoff — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:11:20 +0000

My HP TouchPad has finally arrived. It looks beautiful. (Of course, it looks like every other black rectangular tablet with rounded corners – are Apple’s lawyers listening?) Unfortunately, I can’t set up email on it. My IMAP configuration for geoffarnold.com, which works on my MacOS, iOS, Android, and various other clients, won’t work in webOS. [...]

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HP TouchPad arrived