Technology

Asus Eee PC Initial Impressions Just when I had given up purchasing an Asus Eee PC after being duped by Buy.com, the phone rang. It was my brother in law, Rory: “I, uh, found one of those computers that you were looking for over here at Best Buy.” “What? I called them on the phone [...]

I plunge into the paradox of how my computer can be both in stock and on back order.

Asus eee PC 900 Travel ComputerToday Vagabond Journey has put into motion the retirement of “Old Faithful,” my big archaic Dell Laptop, and purchased a slim and slender Asus eee PC 900. This is the new model of the eee PC, and it is more like a real computer than its “web appliance” predecessor; as [...]

“Smoke is an indication of work . . . therefore, we are proud of our smoke.”Reactions to the thoughtless acquisition and utilization of introduced technology in Southern India.“Developing countries must not and will not allow themselves to be distracted from the imperatives of economic development and growth by the illusory dream of an atmosphere free [...]

Truphone on FacebookI received the following message from a marketing intern at Truphone (Software Cellular Network Ltd.) informing me of a new “free” telephone service available through the Facebook social/ web-community page. I do not have a Facebook account, so I have not been able to check out this service first hand, but, if it [...]

York, Pennsylvania, USAAugust 14, 2007The Cancion del Vagabundo website is beginning to take shape, and is actually looking like a real site. If you would like to visit it you can by going to http://canciondelvagabundo.googlepages.com/ Thanks!I purchased a regular .com domain but currently loathe the thought of moving everything that I just put up over [...]

Upstate New YorkJuly 10, 2007“. . . even a rolling stone requires an occasional handful of moss.”-Harry Franck, Working North from PatagoniaAlpacas in Bosque de Piedras, Peru, 2001.As I ended up back in the USA I figure that I am afforded the opportunity to think through some of my previous travels and dig into the [...]

For a long time I attepted to ignore any computer technology and viewed any time in which I used it as ‘giving in.” Now I realize that if I lived at the advent of the ballpoint pen I would continue writing with quill feathers. I use ballpoint pens…..not utalyzing the computer is simply a matter [...]

In Upstate NY visiting family. Wondering why I am making this. Blog is what it is called I suppose. I do not really know why I care, or feel self importance, to the extent that I will post my doings on a computer. I suppose it is one, rather pliable, attempt to communicate..or perhaps I [...]