I got my hands on the new iRiver T60 MP3 player today.

It's pretty good.

I've only found a few issues that I would like to resolve, but it works very well for my podcast listening needs.

It'll resume from where it was turned off, it allows for copying of files to a USB Mass Storage drive, it will play the podcasts in the order that they are saved to the device.

The only two downsides so far is that setting the "Playback Speed" option to the fastest setting makes podcasts sound like I'm listening to the chipmonks, and every action seems to require the first button click to "wake up" the device and I need to then press the button again to make it do what I wanted. I can live with these issues.

I’ve got Windows Vista Ultimate…

It came with my Dell Laptop…

Now, in the last month or so, weird things are happening. Quicken decided to crash on me every time I run it. Anytime I click on a link in any program I get a dialog box telling me the link didn’t work, but then Firefox pops up and all is well. And now…

Media Center has just gone and disappeared from my system. I just can’t find it. I didn’t uninstall. It’s just not there.

Weird.

I’m about two months in since getting the computer. I’d hope to go at least 6 months before a repave. Maybe it’s time to start again.

Sheesh.

It’s not the “Wow” I was looking for.

It's taken a while, but I've finally got a version of dasBlog that will stop comment spam.

I've set up a new install and I've imported my old content – so I'm now spam free I hope.