For my 30th birthday, my parents quite generously gave me an iPod. It was a great gift. I've previously had a mp3 player, Creative Lab's Nomad, but they screwed me by never coming out with drivers for it besides the Windows 98 drivers. If they are under the impression that I will stay with Windows 98 for the rest of my life just because of their mp3 player, they have another thing coming. I've never bothered to contact them to ask them if they did have that impression, but I'm sure they do, and now they know they have another thing coming.
The iPod is great: very thin, easy controls, and good sound. The only problem I have with it is if I place the iPod in the dock, and I'm not logged in, it will sit there and display "don't remove the iPod from the dock" until I log in, which is kind of annoying. But now I just don't put it in the dock until I log in, so problem solved.
I've uploaded all my music to iTunes. Not all, actually, just the ones I thought were worth it, which was about half of all songs. I even bought a song from the ITunes store, Fishbone's Skankin' to the Beat. It was great. But almost nothing else I like is on the store. No Dead Milkmen, no Mojo Nixon, no Foetus, no Laibach, no chutney music at all (they problem took one look at the cheapo Chutney albums with titles like "Yes Boss!!! Chutney time" and threw them straight in the trash). So they need to keep expanding the selection.
Anyway, now I'm one of those people you see with headphones on all the time. I'd feel stupid-looking if it wasn't for the great trail blazed by countless stupid-looking yuppies that use those handless cell phone accessories.
Posted by ahyatt at August 2, 2003 08:26 AM