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Archive for January, 2007

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Life After Visual Acuity

January 18th, 2007  |  by popagandhi  |  published in general

No relation to the fabulous essay in Psychology Today called Life After Infidelity (read it, you may learn many things about yourself.. like I did!)

Has been all about waking up, seeing, and wondering if I slept with my contact lenses on.
Is getting competitive: I wondered this morning if I was flirting with the ophthalmologist so [...]

The End of Myopia

January 14th, 2007  |  by popagandhi  |  published in general

Fifteen minutes and three thousand dollars.

So that was all which was standing between me and the reclamation of a life without glasses and without contact lenses ââ¬â a life I thought I’d bid farewell to, twelve years ago, when I couldn’t read past the first row of letters in a reading test as a nine [...]

Bangkok Tips (Updated)

January 13th, 2007  |  by popagandhi  |  published in general

atarashi wrote to me for Bangkok tips; she wasn’t the only one. I get a few of those each week. So here’s my newest list of tips of places to go, and places to eat.

BTS Ari
If you’re looking for somewhere more local, somewhere not so… farang (if you know what I mean), an already cool [...]

Some N73 Tips

January 12th, 2007  |  by popagandhi  |  published in tech

If the blue blinking disco light in sleep mode annoys you, go to Tools -> Phone -> Display -> Sleep mode (off).

For good free S60 software, check out S60 Freeware.

Do a phone software update.

Most importantly, if you’re experiencing slowness in sending SMSes, download the SMS Accelerator from Nokia. If you use a Mac you can [...]

You’re Missing the Point

January 10th, 2007  |  by popagandhi  |  published in tech

Unless you’ve been living under some kind of rock, you’ll know that the big news today (and yesterday, for us) was the announcement and demo of Apple’s iPhone. The Web is up in flames talking about it. It seems to me, from my reading of comments on tech websites (Apple and non-Apple), response has been [...]

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