A while ago I posted about one of my goals: achieving black belt.

Thankfully, I can now announce that I have successfully accomplished this goal!

Right before leaving on walkabout I undertook one of the most demanding trials I’ve every experienced–my black belt test in the martial art of Muay Thai, …

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

— Walden, by Henry David Thoreau.

And Now for Something…

I’m on walkabout.

I realize that for most people that word may be a bit nebulous—probably equivalent, …

Scanning stacks of nasty paper documents into digital form has never been easier, so today I want to take a look at the Epson WorkForce DS-560 Document Scanner to see if it’s up to the job.

This scanner is said to scan wirelessly to mobile devices, and at speeds up to 26 pages per minute via USB. …