Month: July 2005

  • Upgrading the house

    For the past few weekends, I’ve been working on the house, with the help of my parents. The first room to go under the putty knife is the bathroom – we’ve ripped out the old, tired wooden panelling, patched multiple holes in the wall, given the radiator a nice coat of gloss white paint and…

  • Avoiding the hoopla of an iPod

    As mentioned previously, having played with an iPod, I’m quite impressed with where the technology is. However, I rarely jump into a new tech gadget without doing -some- research first, and man have I been doing research on portable media players. One of the better sites I’ve found (commercial wise) is Advanced MP3 Players. They…

  • iPods. Now I understand the hoopla.

    I’ve often wondered what the hoopla over the Apple iPod was about. Today I met an iPod. Stark, simple, tactile, functional. I’m not so sure on the menu interface yet, but beyond that it’s fairly brilliant. Simple smooth touches to the click-dial and things happen. It’s a tad sensitive for my massive fingers, but that’s…