success!

[k8mnstr]

For my birthday Mike got me a sexy 4th Generation iPod nano... in pink. I've never really been a huge iPod fan (or Apple fan, for that matter), but when I saw the promotions for the Chromatic series in New York awhile back I was tempted. And that temptation grew when Mike purchased a black one of his own a few weeks ago

Comments

[theragtagpoet]

What is it with all my friends being tech genius types that program and use linux and build their own systems? *feels dumb now*

[stevenglassman]

You have way more patience than I do. Heh. And that's saying a LOT.

[k8mnstr]

It's not so much patience as much as it is stubbornness.

I'm obviously not willing to go out and drop over a grand on a piece of proprietary Apple kit just to sync my iPod. And the days of plug-n-pray and lack of security are enough to have me limiting my interactions with Windows to nothing more than a virtual machine.

I just had to remember that if it work easily or seamlessly than everyone would already be doing it, and that the effort I put into tweaking the system is what makes it mine.

Yes, I'm going to have to tweak a few things here and there (or write a work around) in order to get something functioning, but I'm not spending thousands of dollars or risking losing all of my work later on down the line to get it done.

You'd be surprised how far that peace of mind can take you.

It also helps to have a tech-savvy significant other who throws out suggestions to you every once in awhile =)