iPod

Broke down and bought a generation 4 (G4) 40GB iPod today from the Apple store in International Plaza mall, Tampa, FL.

Wow. I’ve copied ~ 1.9GB of MP3s to it so far. Sounds awesome.

Running it in Gentoo Linux using gtkpod to get my music onto it. Working okay.

I had to put it on my Windows XP Pro box to format my new G4 iPod to a FAT32 filesystem (using the included software from Apple).

Wow.

I don’t even know what time it is now. But it’s definitely Sunday night.

Yesterday

Yesterday went pretty much as planned. But it rained, so no go-carts.

Picked up the Audi. Dropped it off at the mechanic. I only drove about 3 miles, but that car really drives!

The bike blew a tire. Dropped it off near the bike mechanics’ place.

Gotta price a Metzeler M1 rear tire.

Should have eaten better. Chips/salsa for breakfast with a banana chaser. Then steak at 7pm.

ZOË

I’ve been testing and experimenting with ZOË, billed as ~ “Google for your email” at home and at work.

I’m excited. It seems to be intended as more of a proxy for your email. That is, it doesn’t necessarily replace your email client. You would like check the same mailbox(es) with both it and your mail client and use it for an SMTP relay for your sent mail so they get indexed too.

That’s already great. And I’m not complaining. But I was rather hoping it would replace my mail client. Maybe it will surprise me.