Chasing the Nexus 4, Waiting on the Wii U
Two gadgets everyone wants this December, the Nexus 4 and the Wii U, both make you wait before you get to use them, and I'm out here losing to a restock timer and a mandatory day-one update.
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Refreshing My Way Toward a Nexus 4
A play-by-play of losing the daily battle to buy a Nexus 4 during Google's endless restock cycle, plus a quick note on Gangnam Style overtaking Baby on YouTube.
My Wii U GamePad Already Needs a Nap
Nine days in with my Wii U Deluxe, the GamePad battery is already driving me nuts, plus a Cyber Monday checkout that wouldn't load.
Black Friday Started on Thanksgiving Night This Year
A midnight recap of Black Friday creeping into Thanksgiving evening, a $179 TV, a sold-out Wii U, and mixed feelings about the whole thing.
Wii U Launch Weekend: The Hunt and the Gripes
A personal recap of hunting down a Wii U on launch weekend, plus real complaints about the GamePad's battery life and what the console actually feels like to live with.
A Flooded Basement Took Down Half My RSS Reader
A flooded basement data center in lower Manhattan took Gawker, Gizmodo, and a handful of other big sites offline for days after Sandy, and it made me paranoid about my own dinky hosting setup.
Six Days Without Power
Six days without power after Sandy taught me more about battery packs, car chargers, and generator-owning neighbors than I ever wanted to know.
Storm Prep, Backups, and an iPad Mini I Might Not See for a While
Storm prep notes on the eve of Sandy - backing up the laptop, panic buying at the grocery store, and worrying about a preordered iPad Mini shipment more than I probably should.
My iPad Lasted Seven Months
Apple's iPad mini event made my seven-month-old iPad 3 obsolete overnight, and I'm more annoyed about the dead accessories than the device itself.
Watching the Jump Buffer
A few days late reacting to the Baumgartner jump, but mostly about watching a livestream buffer at the worst possible moment and the week of scrubbed attempts before it.
Big Bird Broke My Twitter Feed
On second-screening the first presidential debate, Twitter's Big Bird meltdown, and getting mildly dizzy over Facebook's one-billion-user number.
My Lumia 900 Just Got Orphaned
Nokia showed off the Lumia 920 and 820 today, and all I could think about was that my five-month-old Lumia 900 just got left behind for good.