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Over the past few months (and weeks) I've collected a number of gadgets I will be blogging about. I've been super happy with them, and here they are in no particular order.

1. D-Link DGL-4100 Broadband Gaming Router - I'm finished with Linksys. Those routers SUCK. Their UI is older than the Palm OS at this point. This router has been running for 2 months now without a single issue or reboot. My Linksys was very unreliable. D-Link is my new favorite router company. Their Web UX rocks and they support all the good features & standards out of the box.
2. D-Link DWL-P200 PoE adapter. If you want to place a router in your attic, and don't have power up there, you can get a Power Over Ethernet (PoE) adapter and run the current over the Ethernet cable. This is a great way to put a wifi access point anywhere you can snake Ethernet cable. If you have an AP that supports PoE natively (such as the D-Link DWL-2200AP), you don't even need the other half of it, just the power injector.
3. 17 inch iMac. Got one as our "kitchen computer". Installed Vista RTM on it and it's bliss. This is a fantastic machine. I've had some "hybrid sleep" issues, iSight doesn't work, and Gigabit Ethernet required some driver updates, but all in all it's a great, quite, pretty and fast machine. More details later.
4. Samsung Blackjack. I LOVE THIS PHONE. I had no idea this phone was even coming out. I prefer the Smartphone OS over the Pocket PC OS, and since I was holding out for the Treo, I decided to get the Blackjack instead. The only way to describe this phone is that it's like using an iPod nano. You just can't believe how small and light this thing is. Again, a device that makes me smile. Kudos to Samsung for hitting a home run (albeit the 3G sucks the battery dry, I'll post a link on how to disable it when I write my review). Oh, and I love the commercials on TV for the device. Way better than the Q (both in device and in marketing).
5. Sigma 30mm SLR lens. This is a fantastic lens for low light pictures. Set your DSLR to 800 - 1600 ISO and take indoor pics in low light with very little grain.
6. New Kitchen. Yep, our 3 month kitchen remodel is done, and the kitchen is jammed packed full of sweet kitchen gadgets (Viking Range, Sub Zero, Miele dishwasher, Wine Fridge and so on). Lora and I are really enjoying cooking in this kitchen.
7. I'm forgetting something....
8. Oh, untold numbers and amounts of baby gear... to many things to blog about.