Category: Special Report

Travel Tips for Techies (And Everyone Else) – Nemo Memo

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I just returned from my fourth weekend trip taken during the past two months. Two journeys were by car and two were by airplane. I live in Tucson in southern Arizona. One trip each was to Nevada and northern Arizona, and two were to Marin County, north of San Francisco, California. The California flights were for family occasions, and both Nevada and northern Arizona were for sightseeing. Only the Arizona trip included other people: daughter and son-in-law. We took our small family dog with us on the sightseeing trips and also on the first California flights.

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Macworld-Day 2 (so far)

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The rest of the day I’ll spend looking at the booths I missed yesterday, and sitting in on a few tech sessions. It’s a lot of fun meeting the vendors and software developers of products I use regularly, like CrashPlan, Wiley, and Boinx.

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Old School Tech

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When we talk about tech on this site it’s usually of a relatively recent vintage. Certainly few people want to read about computers from 30 to 50 years ago and that’s understandable. Life is short and we want our tech to be sleek and fast and able to slice through a Photoshopped image with 20 filters in less time than it took for me to write this sentence. There is one kind of tech that many of us will stop and admire no matter how much out of date it is. Even more than the space program, techies love old cars.

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