by 2summers | Dec 28, 2015 | United Arab Emirates
In my last post I told you about my whirlwind trip to the United Arab Emirates. I stayed in Dubai for four nights, courtesy of Qualcomm, and spent a few days exploring the area without a smartphone to support the #WorldWithoutSnapdragon/#WorldWithoutSmartphones...
by 2summers | Dec 23, 2015 | United Arab Emirates
I’ve just returned from a five-day trip to the United Arab Emirates. That sentence has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? Look, it’s Heather on a train in Dubai. I’m not sure how to begin to explain this trip. Let me start from the top. I was...
by 2summers | Sep 2, 2012 | Instagram, Johannesburg, Melville and Surrounds
I got an iPad. (Thanks, Mom.) I realize I’m behind the curve on this iPad thing. It took me a while to understand the point. What do I need with a weird in-between machine that is neither phone nor laptop? Or so I initially thought. But I get it now. I...
by 2summers | May 2, 2012 | Food and Drink, Johannesburg, Melville and Surrounds
I didn’t give much thought to internet access when I lived in the United States. American broadband internet is cheap and easy to get. Just about every home has it. And as far as I know, internet in the United States is always unlimited. I had never heard of a “data...
by 2summers | Feb 4, 2011 | Johannesburg
Here’s what happens when a PC-using American writer meets a Mac-using South African photographer: Help.