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Shopping in London

Been doing a bit of tax-free shopping in London these couple of days. The Harrods Knightsbridge store is absolutely amazing. There is nothing like this in the U.S., not even the Macy’s in NYC. There is a crazy sale going on right now, Sherry and I went there the last 2 days. You see luxury brands such as Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, or Marc Jacobs at 30% to 60% off, pretty insane, I’ve never seen these things discounted this much. Still no discount at their Louis Vuitton section though. Sherry picked up a nice YSL la boheme big hobo bag for 1/2 price Monday. We were gonna go to the LV store in Paris to get her a birthday present, but it turned out most of the stores closed on Sundays there. So yesterday we finally made it to the Louis Vuitton store on Sloan Street, shopping there was quite an experience, took her forever to decide what to buy, at the end I bought her a monogram speedy 30. It’s great getting stuff here coz we get VAT back, so it’s about 15% less expensive than eLuxury, and another 8-10% less expensive than getting from LV stores.

I didn’t get anything myself coz the stuff I want (watches) are still too expensive even after the crazy Harrods sales and VAT deduction. 🙁 I’ll keep that in mind next time I come over here. 🙂

Got back to London

Finally got a more reliable internet connection, uploaded the pics I post-processed so far, but I am way behind on processing them. 🙂

Update: just finished processing the pictures until the middle of day 3 of this trip… they can be found at here and here… enjoy! I will work on more soon, we took some really neat shots of Arc de Triomphe in the evening of day 3.

In Paris now

My hotel has free Wifi, but the connection is not that great. I’ll post some pics to my snapshot gallery soon. I am shooting RAW so it takes a while to process them.

billburnham.blogs.com: Just How Much Did VCs Pocket On Google?

Pretty crazy how much money KP and Sequoia made from the Google deal…

billburnham.blogs.com: Just How Much Did VCs Pocket On Google?

“A reporter asked me the other day what impact Google would have on the two main VCs in the Google deal, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia, and it got me to thinking:  just how much money did those funds really pull out of Google?    Filled with a wistful sense of VC envy, I wondered over to Edgar to try and piece together the details.  In doing so I made some pretty interesting discoveries which I don’t think have been discussed to date.

How to Turn $12.5M into $4.3BN….”

Sony Ericsson Akono HBH-662

Finally got my HBH-662 from my eBay seller, it was shipped via USPS Priority Mail from CT, so took almost a week to get here. The instructions recommended charging it for 8 hours the first time, so it’s still charging.

The battery indicator reads full charge after just 2 hours, so I made some test calls with the power adaptor plugged in. The call quality is MUCH MUCH better than the Scala 500 and the Jabra BT250v. (I wrote about my experience with those 2 headsets in my previous entry). When receiving calls, the phone switches to the HBH-662 very quickly. Caller ID shows up just fine, but with the Treo 650, it only shows phone numbers, but not the names. It’s fine coz I don’t really care about the caller ID feature.

The volume could be louder, but I was using it with the power plugged in, so maybe I could’ve moved the earpiece closer to my ear. I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to hear it very well in my Evo. I read from TreoCentral that I could use a Jabra gel with the HBH-662, so I might do that. Those gel molds are very comfortable, and they should give me better isolation.

Overall I am very happy with it, I might post more about it later. Feel free to post comments if you guys have questions about it, though most of them have probably been answered at the TreoCentral thread on this headset.

When will Shure or Etymotic make Bluetooth headsets?? 😀

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