Fuckin' Posers! The Jason Nevins' Classic Club Blaster Remix of N.e.r.d.'s Rock Star is the chosen track on the new iPod telly ad in the US.
...and I've got mine back from Amsterdam today! Hopefully this one will work properly (third time lucky and all that).
NB: The above insult is a lyric from the song. No offence intended.

How can you annoy a die-hard PC user? Let him experience how easy using a Mac really is. Stuart Miles, who's been using Windows since Windows began, agreed to use a Mac with Panther as part of a report in The Times. Not surprisingly, he quite enjoyed it. "What makes it worse is that after only three hours of using Apple’s latest operating system, 10.3, I started to wonder if I should have made the change years ago". The Mac connected to his PC better than his Windows laptop does, and losing track of open windows, the only past annoyance he used to have with Macs, has vanished with the introduction of Exposé.
Nigel Kendall, who was given a PC for a week, pleaded for the return of his Mac at the end of it all. Surprise, surprise.
What was the PC user's only reason for not becoming a Switcher? He thought he was "too far gone" with his current choice. A feeble excuse if you ask me. If only he'd seen the light sooner.

Virgin Megastores now stock iPods.

iTunes wins TIME Magazine's Invention of the Year.TIME Magazine: Coolest Inventions 2003, Apple Music Store

Panther Update.
"The 10.3.1 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, services and technologies: FileVault, Printing, WebDav, and FireWire 800 drives. This update also includes the latest Security Updates."
Well, that should sort things out. It's only 1.3 MB in size, so best download it before any more damage is done.

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iPodding has hit East London. noWax night (d'you see what they've done? noWax, moWax?) at DreambagsJaguarshoes, on Kingsland Road lets aspiring jockeys to 'set the floor alight' karaoke style. Well it saves them carrying their decks and vinyl to each gig (imagine carting around 10,000 12 inches). To be come a superstar DJ , just take your iPods along, put your name down, wait for your number to flash up and up you get. Just remember to take a load of mates along who are on your wavelength (something I learned when I deejayed with Dean 'Decks' Taylor at Club X, High Wycombe in my student days). One problem though, how the hell do you cue and mix tracks on an iPod?
Realistically, who'd want to go to a club where the music was a geek's free for all? And no pitch control means no seamless mixes. Now that's the equivalent of a disco at a wedding...out of town..somewhere in the early 80s. Read more at Method Shop.

Boring Mac Fact:
The Apple PowerBook 100 (introduced in October '91) was codesigned with Sony.

There's a poster for the iPod at my train station. It's there as you step onto platform 4 (for trains to Euston). There with it's bright colour and cool iPod using dancing silhouette. Did someone put it there just to piss me off (even more) in the morning? Did they check their books before the media space was booked? "Hold that six-sheet. There's a customer who still hasn't has his broken Pod fixed, even though he sent it away in September. Better not stick it where he'll be reminded of his misfortune every working day". You see I sent my replacement iPod, with the dud , back weeks ago. I need music in the morning. How else do I cope with Silverlink Trains' ineptness? I may write a letter to the Advertising Standards Authority. Yeah. That'll teach a lesson they won't forget. Heartless Barstards.
Oh for crying out loud! There's three more posters on my cycle route from Euston to work aswell!
If you need any more reasons not to buy an iPod, have a butchers at this: MP3 Insider - CNET reviews

Apple .Mac members can download Backup 2. You can now schedule your backups to iPods and more third-party drives, burners, even folders. You can also mix the media in a single backup set. The result makes backing-up a whole lot easier. A less significant change to Backup is that the umbrella icon is now purple.

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Firewire Disk problems? Filevault too? Oh dear!
Yahoo! News - FileVault problems continue Apple's OS woes