I have basically decided to get an iPod. When I get it is unsure at the moment. I might go over to MegaMart tomorrow and grab one. The one thing that I MUST get is the extended warranty. I hate those things by design, but in the case of an iPod I think it is essential. I am not sure if MegaMart has their own warranty program that might be even better than the Apple one… The Apple one is $99 for the extra year of Hardware which is probably worth it.

The reports I have seen suggest that it is probably better to hold the iPod than have it on the belt. This is what I suspected anyway – and what I do with a GPS and the FM radio at the moment – so I dont think that this will be an issue.

The comments suggest it is better to play an album than random play since the album is queued into RAM whilst on Random Play it is not. The device should be able to work out it is in Random Play mode and cache the next few songs into memory anyway, randomly. That is what I would do if I was designing the iPod.

In terms of software, I have found this utility that allows me to control an iPod from a PC. Sort of cool I think… Not sure how useful it is if I have iTunes open next to it…

I found a strang story on The Age WWW site, about how someone switched the cocaine used to train sniffer dogs in Victotia for talcum poweder. The report suggests that drug dealers might not need to worry too much about dogs at the moment, but that babies are fairly safe if they go missing.

Music:

Deadstar with ‘Deeper Water’. It has been a while since I have heard this song. Cool really. In the background I am MP3’ing a few of my CD’s. They have dodgy TAG information encoded in them, and no album art. So the easiest way to fix that is to re-encode them. The hardest part is finding the CD’s in my archive. And putting them back after RIPing.