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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case-mate iPod Shuffle Case. Just cute. Trina got 2 for free and she gave me one! I mean gave Sarah one . Looks like they don't even have them for sale yet.
Crumpler 5 Million Dollar Home - sweet case for your DSLR and 2 lenses. I've been looking for a messenger style bag to carry my D70 in for a long time and this looks purfect. To bad Timbuk2 doesn't make one and to bad they didn't seem to be at Macworld. Just ordered the Crumpler in black.
IntelliScanner mini. Kinda like the idea of scanning in all the wine I own to catalog it all and remember what I've purchased and consumed. the OCD in me wants to scan all the contents of my fridge and pantry. Torres, you listening?
harman/kardon drive + play 2. This looks like the ultimate car addon for those of us with cars that don't have built in iPod kits or bluetooth. Basically you wire this puppy in and then you can control and listen to your Zune/iPod while it it stashed away in a glove compartment. You can also take advantage of your cell phone's bluetooth features somehow. Out later this year.
Arctic Butterfly - a super duper brush to get the dust off the CCD on your DSLR. If you own a DSLR you will get dust on your CCD. Getting it off often involves some tricky acrobatics with a duster or a CCD swipe that can potentially damage your CCD. There is also the option to send it to the manufacturer but that's a pain. This device avoids all that and appears to be safe on your CCD.
Shure's new line of headphones. Lots of usability improvements. The new line includes the SE210, SE310, SE420 and SE530/SE540PTH. The last one are basically the headphones I own (E500PTH) that come with new ear foam inserts that they gave me some of in the booth. The 500 series are just incredible. I've never heard base on headphones like this. It sounds like you are in a room with really great speakers. They are absurdly expensive for earphones though and I would not have purchased them had I not gotten them for 50% off.
Belkin CushTop. Pillow for your hot laptop.
 
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