...but still lovin' it. Where to start? I've (finally) got myself an iPod. Last week I was up late at the shop repairing iBooks rather than having a beer with friends and out of frustration I decided then and there at 2 a.m. that I'd go home listening to some music ;-)

Luckily we had a silver iPod mini in store, because that was pretty much the model I had decided on previously already (strictly hypothetically at the time, of course!)

Well, since then I've been busy tidying up my music collection with proper ID3 tags and spending a lot of my outdoor time grinning like an imbecile and nodding my head (semi-) rhythmically to complete strangers - great fun!

See, I've never had any kind of mobile music device whatsoever. So suddenly having an iPod is really letting me rediscover my whole relationship with music. Currently I'm mostly listening to stuff that I bought on vinyl as a teenager (I did bring the records with me to Berlin but not the player - and somehow never got around to getting one here...)

But apart from reveling in the "good ol' times"[tm] together with the Beastie Boys, Mr. Bungle, King Missile, Body Count, The Cure, Deee-Lite, LL Cool J, Front 242, Grandmaster Flash, Run D.M.C., Primus and Yello I'm also catching on to a rather current development in the area of personal listening, namely Podcasting.

And while this entry was really supposed to more about podcasting and the iPod theme just a runner up, I spent so much time googling for the artists above just to find crappy corporate, flash-based monstrosities and then doing the search all over again at wikipedia (there's a lesson for all of us there, I think) that now I've plain run out of steam. I'll leave you with the (mental) image of me hanging up the laundry while listening to Adam Curry over headphones ;-)