We had a pretty nice weekend considering everything, L is still sick with the cold from hell, three weeks going.. but anyway. Yesterday a valiant effort was made to make us and the kids get some quality outdoors time, we took the “bobs” and went to the local ski-slope. But the cold eventually got the better of us and the kids despite enjoying the concept also agreed that it was time to give the outdoorsy activities a rest.

Saturday evening meant a trip to the studio, I’m working on a remix that I want to sound really raw and analogue, and I’m fighting against the maddening quirks of the Doepfer Schaltwerk.. man.. sometimes it’s a piece of heaven that machine and sometimes you just need to turn it off for a while and do something else.. pretty telling that the first page in it’s manual discusses burning your own eprom ..

Anyway the weekend ended in style with some prominent guests at our table for the Sunday afternoon tea. Can you believe I just today handed over the last christmas present? Many many thanks to E for the help with the new kitchen fan, our old one broke and guess what the most economical solution was? Buy an identical one..

If you have been reading previous posts on this blog you may  be familiar with what a great part headphones in general and lately headsets specifically play in my life. In my line of work you spend a lot of time on the phone, so I need to be able to do so in the most convenient way available.  Not only that, but I’m also constantly listening to music while working, or in the car, or on my bike. And I am doing so from a variety of devices, sometimes from the computer, sometimes from the phone, sometimes from my other phone..

Finally there is a product on the market that allows this to happen. The MW-600 works great for this. Like other products I have reviewed in the past it is multi-homing, that is it can be bound via bluetooth to several devices at once.  This is normally tricky business since Bluetooth seems to be a rather flexible protocol, and some phone brands abuse this (Apple, I’m looking at you) and never lets the other phone in on the action. Other glitches with bluetooth and music I have seen in the past like music occationally dropping out, or being at a wierd, unchangeable volume, seem to finally be fixed.

So with the MW-600, you finally get the feeling that you get a product using bluetooth that is a really polished product. You get a nice friendly display which lets  you pick   1.  where do you want your calls to come from and  2. where do you want your music to come from.   So you can even, without any hassle, be playing music from one bluetooth source while accepting and making calls from another bluetooth device. Wicked!  You also get a built-in FM radio as a music source.

The MW-600 can handle three simultaneous devices. For me that means my work phone, my personal phone and my iPad.  But other choices could include a laptop with bluetooth or even a gaming console.

Now my only gripe is that the display works great with the iPhone, showing the names of music tracks in the display and the names of contacts calling you also. But oddly this does not work on Sony Ericssons own phones, whats up with that?  A very minor gripe on an all-around awesome product. Also the display is OLED, which I thought would mean that it would be really cool, but It’s not.  In any kind of outdoor enviroment the display is impossible to read. It’s not a dealbreaker, but annoying.

Did i mention its going for really cheap?  A solid investment.

If you havent stopped by Gottsunda center in a while now would be a good time. Some pretty drastic remodeling is going on and the results are starting to show. Looking good!

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We had a great time at the gourmet club yesterday. Some amazing wine, champagne and a lamb that had spent six hours in the oven.  In the picture we see young Gabriel (super-tiny Gabriel, as Aron calls him) enjoying one of the non-alcoholic refreshments.

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We are on our first camping trip as a family of four. A mere hour away from our home this great beach makes for a nice trial run. Water is amazing and everyone is happy so far.

Update:

Everything went well, and despite some complications (no pots to cook in, ants around the tent, no coffee until 8am) we had a great time and Aron is already asking for when we are going to go back. Can you believe we had the beach all for ourselves for the whole morning? Nobody was swimming util 10am! Also it seems that we missed saturday evenings entertainment:

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We are at the norberg festival and these are our neighbours. Great times all around.

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So to rectify this i installed the most ridiculous captcha system i could find and enabled comments to be visible right away. If you comment with your Facebook account you wont have to bother with the captcha.

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