I take it all – well nearly all – back

So, when planning for a two week trip to Europe I bought the travel adapter kit and tried, tried very hard, to buy an adapter for use on the flight.There is no such animal.I have used the iGo Juice for many years and like it…. They recommend a Kensington inverter that plugs into the airline outlet and into which I plug the regular Apple power supply.

Phones and standards

We are all smart enough to have moved to GSM phones through large carriers (after all, the male halves of the couples were born in Europe and have worked in the standards industry for many years) exactly because we do travel and a world standard is very useful…. When, oh when will companies understand that making it hard for me to switch is not the way to keep me as a customer.In the end, Jeanne (my friend’s wife) bought a pay as you go phone in Italy and we all (her family and mine) called that single number.

The Coffee Rant

You know, I’m getting to the stage where I KNOW I inhabit a different world than everyone else. Up until I got older, I used to only suspect that that was the case. Now I know it. I’m turning into a curmudgeon – what am I going to be like when I get old? I’m…