The Bird is the Word

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I should have posted this sooner: the latest addition to our family is a peach-faced lovebird we’ve named Oliver.

A couple of weeks ago, client of mine in midtown found him on their 42nd floor balcony (!) and took him in; unfortunately as much as they loved him they found he was too loud to keep at their financial services firm. Being somewhat comfortable with birds having baby-sat for Michael’s parrot, Harry, and given Tania’s recent obsession with all things Aves, we decided to give him a home.

He’s about 6 inches tall, very curious and sweet. We’ve had him for a week, and he’s adjusting to his new home pretty well I think. He’s even winnning Mylo over.

See more of him here.

New Gadget #1: Nokia 6620

Just wanted to make a quick post to talk about my new phone, the Nokia 6620 — it’s a smartphone with camera, stereo audio playback and EDGE for pseduo-high speed data.

I’m going to experiment with using it as my day-to-day music player, since it will play back .mp3 and .aac files; however, initially I was saddend to discover that the .aac format it wants is different from those that are generated by iTunes.

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