Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. 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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A few months back I wrote about a chemical called Bisphenol A (BPA) which is commonly found in polycarbonate plastics, which make up most baby bottles.
Today, when re-reading that article I saw a Google ad for a new web site which tracks all sorts of news related to BPA if you are so interested. It also contains links to some plastics guides.
http://www.bisphenolafree.org/
Looks like some one filed a class action law suit demanding that the baby bottle companies label their packages as having BPA in them.
BTW, we have been using Born Free Bottles for our little Sarah and love them. They look and feel like the Dr. Brown's bottles but they are made from a bio-plastic called Polyamide. They can be found at Whole Foods (they are usually sold out though). I highly recommend them for your child.
Also, San Francisco and the EU have laws that now ban the sale of baby products that contain BPAs.