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6 Nov 2020

Review: Runwave Kohala Inflatable Stand Up Paddle Board (iSUP)

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2022-08-03T01:37:06-07:00Nov 6, 2020 - Friday|Product Reviews, Reviews|

Read: 7 mins.About five months ago, my best friend and I each purchased an inflatable, standup paddleboard (iSUP) so we could get some fun exercise in while socially distancing amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. It was also meant as a way to bond with our children, and not long after, many friends joined in with boards of their own. Their favorite was the Runwave Kohala that also proved quite popular around the harbor we paddled at. In this review, I take a look at what makes it an excellent beginner board. It had also been marked a "Best Seller" by Amazon.com a couple times.

6 Aug 2020

How to Quickly Teach a Child to Ride a Bike + Woom Review (Kids Balance With No Training Wheels)

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2024-03-16T14:46:40-07:00Aug 6, 2020 - Thursday|Family, General, Product Reviews, Reviews|

Read: 15 mins.Teaching children how to bike is perhaps one of the most rewarding (and possibly important) duties for parents to take on, a job relegated mostly to dads among my family's circle of friends. Naturally, my wife had tasked me to teach our son the skill, a challenge I gladly accepted as I wanted to have the family go out on day trips and spend quality time together. Our son started peddling on a bike -- without training wheels -- four months after he turned 3 years old, and I credit my wife's foresight to putting him on something I had never heard of before: a balance bike. Follow along on our son's FOUR-DAY journey to becoming a confident, fast-riding, joyful bicyclist!

4 Jul 2020

Review: DvSport Sunshine Inflatable Stand Up Paddle Board (iSUP) (WH305-10)

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2022-08-03T01:37:17-07:00Jul 4, 2020 - Saturday|Product Reviews, Reviews|

Read: 6 mins.Ever since my best friend and I tried stand up paddle boarding (SUP) a few years ago, we had always wanted to purchase one but did not know whether we would enjoy it enough to buy one. Today, after having rented one many times, we decided it was time to own one but were unsure about whether to get an inflatable (iSUP) or a hard SUP. This review dives into the differences between them, and why I ultimately chose the inflatable, DvSport Sunshine.

29 Apr 2020

Review: CORE Instant Cabin 9-Person Tent

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2023-11-03T17:42:36-07:00Apr 29, 2020 - Wednesday|Product Reviews, Reviews|

Read: 10 mins.For this review, my son and I took the CORE 9 Instant Cabin Tent out to the backyard for three days and two nights after he was disappointed our Sequoia National Park camping trip had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a perfect opportunity for some father-son bonding, to test out our new tent, put some of my other gear to use, and to get some sense of normalcy back into our lives.

14 Apr 2020

MS Teams: Who Recorded The Meeting? Who Downloaded a Copy of The Recording?

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2021-05-18T21:30:26-07:00Apr 14, 2020 - Tuesday|Microsoft 365, Security, Technology|

Read: 3 mins.A sensitive, internal meeting was held within Microsoft Teams, and someone had accidentally recorded it. The organizer was extremely unhappy when nobody admitted to it, particularly since any attendee was able to download a copy of the recording. An urgent request to the Office 365 and Information Security teams was put out to investigate. How did we go about in doing so?