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Having lost two sets of $180 Etymotics (4s and 4p) and two sets of $125 Shures (SE210s). I’m feeling miraculously stupid about holding on to anything. But at least I can try a new set of phones. I tried the $120 Shures for a while and they just don’t fit…

Wow, amazing, for $700, you get a Western Digital enclosure with 2x2TB drives. It  is also mirrored out of the box so you get redundency. Amazing. Western Digital rolls out new dual-drive My Book World Edition II Western Digital has already dialed things up to 4TB with its My Book…

OK, cool things that you can get, which is Flash drive that is so small the connector is larger than the flash. Called the With prosumer cameras all use Compact Flash and there are SDHC to CF convertors, so you can go to all SDHC card purchase if you can…

Now that 3.0 has shipped, the iPhone is a pretty remarkable device, the big holes left are lousy battery life (maybe the 3GS will really be better???) and lousy, lousy coverage. In Seattle, you get deadspots driving from downtown Seattle to Bellevue on I-5, you are guaranteed to lose the…

Well, I was going to get a Garmin 1300, but with the iPhone 3.0, you have some new choices. AT&T is offering a $10/month service that has turn by turn. The one to get might be the TomTom accessory that comes with a mount that has a better GPS antenna…

Here are the new magic URLs for the conversion by Apptix of their ASP-one to Exchange 2007. Everything changed again. What a strange set of URLs: There is now a magic new user name that is randomly generated. You have to get this from your admin. He or she gets…

You’ve been warned. I have a lock code on my iPhone 3G, when i did the 3.0 update, it trashed the nvram so that there is no wifi hardware detected. Only solution is to go to Apple store and get a new phone. Took some digging, but here is an…

If you spend a week in East Oahu, some notes: Wet-n-Wild Hawaii. Its a nice splash zone. Only about 40 minutes from Kailua. Just acquired and renamed Wet’n Wild. In the coupon books, get a free icey if you buy a regular admission. You don’t need the additional $5 charge…

 Perfect for your office fun are the new Nerf guns. Life has sure moved ahead. Head over to Target to get these or Amazon if you are too far away and there is an entire website nerfhaven dedicated to modding theses things. Magstrike. I’ve never seen anything fire so fast…

Random list of useful home things for the summer 🙂 Aerobed’s are really useful when there are guests. Nice that it is raised and also that it has its own pump 🙂 Waring Pro WMK300 makes really amazing Belgian waffles. The thing beeps six times when it is ready, put…