My iPod Nano

I have so fallen in love with my iPod Nano. I ummed and ahhed about the new 5th generation Nano or the iPod Touch. I think I’ve made the right choice. Sure the Touch has apps, a bigger screen and WiFi. But the Nano is just that bit more portable, that bit easier to take with me on my runs around the park, and it takes video.

I’ve also just bought a load of Click Wheel games which will keep me entertained whilst listening to podcasts. The screen is just big enough to watch downloaded television shows on, and the radio is a welcome feature. And anyway, I’m going to get an iPhone when I return to the UK at some stage, so I’ll be able to enjoy the best of both worlds.

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Douglas Adams has been dead a few years now I read his books as a youngster, and especially loved So Long And Thanks For All The Fish. But I had no idea he were such an adventurous and nature loving person too. Not till I tuned into Last Chance To See with his old buddies Stephen Fry and Mark Cawardine.

Such a fabulous television series. A shame he couldn’t have been there himself, but such is life. Had he been part of the Monty Python team, perhaps someone would have taken along his remains in an urn. Still, Messers Fry and Cawardine did him proud.

But I just had to hear the original radio broadcast of his journey all those years ago. Did he think at the time, when he recorded the series in the late 80’s, that a Englishman would get so much enjoyment from the show, listening to it 20 years later on an iPod Nano whilst riding around Mexico City on beaten up microbuses? It’s clear he loved gadgets. He’d have loved to be alive today. The iPhone is the 8th Wonder of the World.

I still have the last episode to listen to. The Kakapo parrot. Amazing creature. He’s still around today, and doing much better, as are most of the animals he went to gawk at. Sadly the Northern White Rhino may have disappeared, but we’ll have to wait and see.

There’s not much more to say really. I guess this is where I bid him farewell. So. So Long Douglas, and Thanks For All The Aye Ayes, Manatees, Blue Whales, White Rhinos, Komodo Dragons and of course those fabulous Kakapos.

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