If you’ll be travelling soon, you might want to learn a few key phrases of another language before you go. Free language lessons are available online, at the BBC website. It’s good to see Nick’s tax dollars hard at work.

It’s too late to learn much Mandarin before the Olympics are over, but you can study [...]

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Why have I been making do with three pockets, when I could have 19? Or 39? Who knew there were special clothes for technology lovers?
Here’s the rodeo coat, which has 39 pockets. Might come in handy, even if you don’t plan to attend a rodeo. As you can see, it’s a final close out, so [...]

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When you’re travelling, you probably bring your laptop, so you can do some work and keep up with your email. Some of the ritziest hotels that I’ve stayed in charge for daily access to their wireless network, or you can trudge down to the lobby for free access. At other, mid-priced hotels, the access is [...]

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Last weekend I set up a little spreadsheet in Excel to compare the cost of a trip in a rented RV versus a small car. The only gas consumption numbers I could find for the RV were in miles per gallon. Since we use the metric system here in Canada, I needed to convert everything [...]

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