Dear Friends,

It’s definitely the dog days of summer as most of the country is gripped by a heat wave and some serious drought conditions are harming crops in many areas of the country. Here in the north, we have had some hot and humid days but nothing like most of the country. Our nights are cool, and today it is quite pleasant with low humidity, a lot of sun and perfect motorcycling or beach weather. My blueberries are coming in and we are trying to beat the birds to the fruit. Grace made the first blueberry pie of the season last night—food you grow yourself always seems to taste better!

I am very pleased to announce that Jason Wu has joined the Small Dog Electronics team. Jason has a lifetime of experience in the Apple market and has been my friend for a couple of decades. Jason will be responsible for our wholesale division and will be working to expand our Hammerhead and Chill Pill Audio brands. I have traveled to China a number of times with Jason and his vision and financial expertise will help to make that division a success. In addition, Jason serves on our board and will be advising Hapy and me on leading Small Dog Electronics.

Did you know that Small Dog Electronics publishes three other email newsletters? In addition to Kibbles & Bytes, we send Tech Tails and Deal Retriever out each week and Best in Showroom each month. You can subscribe to any of our newsletters here. If you haven’t checked out our blog that might be interesting to you as well. Our website was basically a blog way back before there were blogs. I used to get up very early each morning and write something for “Barkings!” that would be the feature on the website. It’s still called Barkings! and can be found here. or accessed from our homepage. Be sure to check us out on Facebook and Twitter, too!

Dawn and I used to write two other newsletters each week. One was called “Do your Business” and was aimed at our business customers. Who knows—we may have to resurrect that one someday. The other was published during the heyday of the Mac clones when we could sell to educational institutions and it was called “Ed’s Up!”. If any of you remember those, feel free to share your memories of them with me at don@smalldog.com!