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Yes, I know I have a Treo 600, though one of these days that might change. Yes, the 600 isn't Bluetooth compatible. But I needed a wireless headset to go with my home phone so I decided to kill two birds with one stone and get a Jabra A210 together with a Jabra BT800. The A210 is a flat, rectangular box with a coiled wire that plugs into a standard 2.5 mm headphone jack and acts as a Bluetooth base. Besides the on/off switch and the 'pair' button, there's also a three-position switch that controls sound quality. The BT800 is a very nice little earphone / microphone device that sits on your ear and communicates via Bluetooth to a Bluetooth-enabled phone or other device such as the A210. A nice feature is DSP. There are many reviews on the web so if you're interested, Google is your friend. The pair effectively adds Bluetooth headset capabilities to a non-Bluetooth enabled device like my Treo 600. It works just as expected with my Treo. Great sound, very convenient, a...

I hate tamper-evident plastic packaging! You know what I mean; the stuff that you have to hack apart with a blunt scissor for 20 minutes before getting at the tiny product within. (I bought a wireless headset for a phone.) Oh, BTW, I am changing jobs. More on that at some point.

Wow, what an interesting experience at Hadassah Har Hatzofim yesterday. As I reported earlier, we are trying to get Akiva accepted into the clinical trial of a new kind of back brace for his scoliosis. Yesterday we went through the beginnning stages of the process. I'm told Akiva will need a CT scan of two portions of the spine so as to measure the exact angle of the rotation of the apex. This is milder than the usual CT scan for this kind of thing, because it only focuses on two small spots, so he gets exposed to less radiation. He'll also need a similar scan at the end of the program for documentation purposes. One of the many things we were told by the doctor in charge of the program was that if Akiva's angle gets even 5% worse, we get booted from the program and he has to start wearing a conventional brace. Even though it's not uncommon for rotation to increase by 5% on even a conventional brace, they're not taking any chances. Fitting the brace The guy in ...