Windows Phone Thoughts: Confessions from a Technology-Hooked CEO

"Michael Ahern loves technology. So much so that if you turned him upside down and shook, he'd instantly lose 10 pounds from all the gadgets falling out of his pockets. Ahern, 39, is chief executive officer of GiftCertificates.com, a 130-person company based in Seattle that offers gift certificates from 300 retailers to businesses and consumers. He's also my former boss. When I call to ask about interviewing him for this article, he laughs. "I've gotten worse," he tells me. "I've got three cell phones in my pockets right now, and I just ordered the Tablet PC."

So after reading this article, I have to ask, how many devices do you carry, and what are they? Myself, when I leave the house for a typical outing, I carry my 128 MB Pocket PC Phone Edition, and my wallet. That's it. You?