The following is an idea I had today for a great feature for conference phone call systems: Make it so attendees cannot hear each other but the presenter can hear everyone. I call my idea Selective Mute.
Kindle
Yesterday, I noticed the price of a Kindle had dropped from $259 to $189. Ran it by the wife (for her) and she liked the idea. Ordered Amazon Prime overnight (an extra $4). It arrives today.
1 July 2010 update: It’s been about a week now since my wife got her Kindle. So far, so good. She really likes its simplicity. She’s glad it doesn’t do “a bunch of unnecessary things,” which is how she thinks of the iPad. Exactly what I love about the iPad is what she dislikes about it.
Amazon is buying Woot and today the woot is a brand new (current model) Kindle for $150. I’m returning the one we bought from Amazon a week ago for $189 and replacing it with this cheaper but identical Kindle from Woot.com.
Rav4 New ECU Installed
Building on my previous post, today we installed the new (repaired but new to us) ECU from Sergei in Brooklyn (eBay ID “chkengine”).
It’s immediately obvious that the power of this car is greatly improved!
We’ll drive it a few days and see if this improvement persists. We are cautiously optimistic. There’s still a new fault code (P1135) and I’ll check that every night to see if it goes away or any new codes come up.