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I started ripping our CDs on Saturday and something happened after I’d done number 20. All the mp3s vanished. Poof!! After much cursing and swearing off iTunes I started again and have to date ripped just 100 CDs. The big names in our CD collection so far are Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash and Led Zeppelin with Bruce still just in the lead and Johnny a close second. The cool thing is that Habibti and I have very similar taste in music, so I’ve had to do very little "censoring".

I’m almost exactly half way through our collection and there are 1559 songs on my laptop, so by the end off the week I should have +/- 3000 songs for us to bop to while we iLive, iWork, iPlay or just iChill.

We really need to broaden our musical exposure and find some new stuff.

I received some gift vouchers for my birthday from friends and family to be spent at a local shopping mall. They have been burning a hole in my pocket ever since while I’ve compiled list upon list of things to buy. I’ve been nagging Habibti since the iPod came out that maybe we should get one, so this morning I decided that that’s what I want. Habibti topped up the difference and I threw in some cables for the amp. We braved the hordes of ‘back to school’ shoppers and I’m now the proud owner of the iPod nano 8GB (3rd generation). This thing is the size of an after dinner mint.

It’s charging while I try and figure out the iTunes software so that I can start compiling my own life sound track. This stuff is making me feel everyday of my 44 years.

I can’t wait till my brother-in-law sees it, what’s the use of having gizmos and not being able to play the one-upmanship game? His 2nd generation model will seem archaic.