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So it has been a fairly long time since I last posted. In that time a lot has happened.

1. My wife gave birth to our second child, a beautiful little girl we named Violet.

It took a lot of effort and almost six years to get her here but thanks to some very talented doctors and a very determined wife on June 12th 2007 Violet entered into our lives. She came in at 7lbs 12oz and was an answer to all our prayers. Her big brother Max has been asking for a little sister for over two years now and we couldn't be happier to oblige him.



2. A product that I co-invented and have partial ownership of hit the shelves at Wal-Mart.









We call it the Applecore.
There is a lot that I could say about this little design, however, at the risk of sounding like a cheap promotion I will only risk just one brief ego inflating anecdote.
While the design can be scaled to meet a variety of cord sizes, currently only the smallest, made for earbuds, is in production licensed through Handstands as The Core.
This past January Handstands promoted the Core at both CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Vegas and at Mac-World in San Francisco. We went to Vegas as it is closer and allowed us the opportunity to visit with other possible international licensees. It was fun to see the display that they had create for it as well as the strong reception that it was receiving. However it was at Mac-World that the real story happened.

I imagine that we are all pretty much saturated at this point with information on the iPhone. News coverage, commercials and Blog reviews are everywhere. Rightly so I am sure. If it is anything as intuitive and useful as my iPod then it deserves the accolades. It was at Mac-World this past January before a heaving throng of Mac-Zealots that Steve Jobs anounced the iPhone to the world. However, the real story happened just moments later.

After ending his keynote address Steve and his entourage of bodyguards and hangers-on strolled around the show to visit with the many vendors at their booths. As I am told, they approached the handstands booth and Steve was given an Applecore. He held it in his hand for a second appraising it then as he turned to leave he was heard to exclaim, "That's Genius."

So anyway I thought that was sufficiently cool enough to allow a little big-headedness. I hope you don't disagree too much.