Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, mostly in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC. I am currently a Senior Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Hotmail Frontdoor team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for the User Interface of Hotmail as well as some of the Infrastructure and Architecture. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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There are few things that bother me more than cables and cords, especially Wall Warts. Why does my camera charger need a 6ft cable?
Well, I’ve been searching the intertubes for almost a year to find “short power cords” to use with my many chargers, dc adapters and so on. This was made difficult by the fact that I had no idea what to search for.
A few months ago my quest was complete. Behold the C7 Figure Eight Plug from Cyberguys.com. At $1.79 each get a bunch of them!
I ordered a dozen 1 ft power cords. These are suitable to replace any 2 prong AC plug (NEMA 1-15 ungrounded plug) with a C7 figure 8 ungrounded plug. I went around my house cleaning up cable disasters everywhere.
Here you can see the diversity of my long cables that I no longer use:
and this is what I replaced them all with:
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