Archive for July 1st, 2008

Product Test: IKEA “Bräda” Lap Pillow

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Yesterday we went to IKEA to buy a bunch of stuff from our TODO list (turned out we actually forgot the handwritten list) and we ended up buying pretty much nothing. Partially because we didn’t remember all the items on the list, and partially because the where sold out.

When we moved through the Office department, containing nothing on our initial list, I noticed something I wanted to try for a long time; a laptop lap pillow. This thing is designed for two things; prevent lap / thighs to burn up (and for the male part of the population; ensuring that you have an OK sperm count the next time you try to reproduce) and see to that the laptop stays stabile in your lap.

My new-bought “Bräda” has a pillow filled with tiny Styrofoam balls and has a plastic table on the top that you put the laptop of choice on. On the side of the pillow, it has a small pocket where you can put your cellular phone, office supplies or whatever in. This blog post is in fact written on top of “Bräda”, and I am quite happy with it, even though I’ve only used it for half an hour or so.

Priced at about $18 it is something I would recommend everyone (male or not :-P )

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New PDC’08 sessions published – 10 is the new 6!

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Found out through the PDC’08 Facebook group today that they have published 16 sessions. A couple of weeks ago, I read on Don Box’ blog that 10 is the new 6 but I didn’t exactly understand why. It is a mantra of the VC++ team and is refering to the long-living version 6 (with a lot of service packs) of Visual Studio. I am not sure if this is a signal that they want to stabilize around the upcoming (upcoming, like in next year or so) version 10 / Rosario of VSTS.

Read more here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/pdc/archive/2008/07/01/new-sessions-published.aspx