Sometimes I feel like the only person on the planet who doesn't have an ipod or equivalent type thingie, I've been tempted in the past but never enough to justify shelling out all that cash for one. I suppose it's because I spend my time at home, in the car or at work and in all of those places my entertainment needs are quite well looked after.

On Thursday there was an ipod related announcement from Apple. On Thursday an order was placed from my first mp3 player...

There is no link between these two things.

No, I'm not going to get myself a video ipod, what would I do with that? I ordered one of these babies and they are cheap.

You see, I have a modest collection of music in mp3 format and it all lives on my laptop, there are very few occasions when I ever want to listen to any of it when I'm not sat with the laptop in front of me. The only reason I want an mp3 player is for Podcasts, I listen to a couple regularly and I normally burn them to CD to listen to in the car, a cheap mp3 player will save me doing that.

So, I'll be having 128mb of audio in a portable device all for £30, cheaper if you shop around. That'll do me nicely.