Anablog

My brilliant young protégé Francis Lau dropped over last night to see if I enjoyed my trip to Vietnam. While I was showing him my pictures he mentioned two cool sites he uses to buy cheap consumer electronics. One is called woot.com. The deal there is they sell one thing and only one thing every day. Today it is a 7 mega-pixel Kodak camera bundled with a photo-printer dock. They want 149 dollars and shipping is just 5 dollars. The other site is slickdeals.net. They have various good deals probably on overstock or other merchandise- One just caught my eye was a Viewsonic 20 inch LCD for 110 dollars (after a 20 dollar rebate) and it has free shipping. This deal has expired though. It comes from Office Depot so this seems more like a social networking site that alerts you to good deals from anyplace people can find them.

I asked where Francis learned about this and he said his fiends all use these sites and that is where he got hip. Ah to be young again and connected to the pop scene. Francis also had a cool Phillips electric toothbrush—I may buy one and take it apart for a Prying Eyes feature like I did my Plantronics phone. I bought a Phillips MP3 player in Singapore and I hate so I will definitely take that apart for you. Stay tuned.