03.27.07

It’s a girl!

Posted in Family at 10.27 by Gabe

We’ll be having a girl: Julia Misura, in August.

The ultrasound tech said it’s a girl.

The doctor said it’s a girl.

03.23.07

Jawbone

Posted in Bluetooth Headset at 14.41 by Gabe

My latest Bluetooth headset Jawbone

This one is pretty darn good, with new noise cancelling tech.
My mom didn’t know I was driving my car (which is usually very obvious because my car makes a lot of noise at 60 mph).
Unfortunately, I’m told that I sound metalic or robotic.

It does a pretty good job of staying on ear. However, even with 4 different ear buds, none of them fit me “well”. Wearing the default/smallest one still causes my ear to hurt after 1+ hours.
The over-the-ear part is spring loaded so it helps hold it in place, but it is contoured for right/left so you can’t easily swap ears. You have to swap clips.

The button to answer is rather hard to push. The volume button is in a strange place, and it cycles through instead of having an up/down.

Seems my phone has developed an annoying buzz when I answer. I don’t hear it, but the people who call me say “ouch” when I pick up because its rather loud.

The charger uses a non-standard connection so it can’t be shared with other mini-usb devices.

Motorola H670

Posted in Bluetooth Headset at 14.34 by Gabe

This headset was ok, but shortly after putting it on my ear, it would shake loose.
It would end up very far from my ear drum so I couldn’t hear very well.
Returned this one.

03.21.07

Impact

Posted in Family at 22.39 by Gabe

I can remember in college, trying to decide what I wanted to do.

Then I found the internet. Realized how huge it would be.
I wanted to do something that touched a lot of people, even if just a little bit.

Now, I will have the chance to influence one special life a lot: our child.

Baby Misura will be joining us in August ‘07.

03.08.07

Virtual Desktops

Posted in Computer at 14.51 by Gabe

Unix has had this for a long time, Microsoft added a powertoy, but its very sad.

I asked for some recommendations and tried out:

http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net

http://virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/

http://www.xdesk.info/

http://dexpot.de/

VirtuaWin was ok, but wouldn’t let me name the desktops. I didn’t try xdesk as I heard it was difficult. Microsoft’s version is limited to 4 windows.

Virtual Dimension is pretty nice, configurable, as many desktops as I want, I can name them. So far I’m impressed.

dexpot came recommended. Looks polished. I have to give it a try.

Dexpot annoys me because when I switch desktops, the windows change order on the task bar. I like to have Outlook first (left) and the rest I’m not so concerned about. When I switched back to the desktop with Outlook, it ended up on the right side.

It does have some very nice options that Virtual Dimension does: Window Catalog, which shows you all of your windows (mini-preview), and you can then click the one you want. Also has: Full-screen preview, which puts up all of the desktops so you can click the one you want (looks weird if you don’t have an appropriate number of desktops: 4, 9…something that fits evenly).