Alright. I do not quite believe this… This site shows how to upgrade your iPod NANO, from the 4 GByte to 250 GByte. I am not sure but I think that this is actually a joke. It is certainly not usable after this since they claim that battery life is now six minutes, and it is rather hard to place a 250 GByte HDD in your pocket. Hmm… If someone wants to donate an iPod NANO to me and the HDD and bits and pieces I will try it… But there aint no way it will be tried otherwise.

On the APPLE front, I was wrong as were many others. Apple have released an iPod with VIDEO capabilities. I still suspect that battery life will be quite poor but I could not find any details on this on their WWW site, except to say that for songs the life is now 20 hours. You can read all about the iPod on the APPLE site, or on The Register. The iTunes store now lets you buy some film clips, as well as DISNEY and the american ABC’s TV Shows for US$1.99 per episode.

And finally, the BBC is reporting that New Orleans has finally been pumped dry, and that all levies are closed. Not all the city is inhabitable, but at least it is dry.