Kerblam! by Christopher

Friday, September 2
Creative ships MP3 players containing Windows worms, and the (yawn) PSP ships

Hmm.

Good news first: Creative somehow (hah) managed to ship thousands of MP3 players containing a two-year old Windows worm. Excellent work! :D There's more on this curiously entertaining bit of news: MacWorld - Creative ships virus-ridden MP3 players (snicker).

On the other hand (yawn, zzz) the PSP finally debuted in the UK at midnight today. Considering I had the chance to try one out about, hmm let's think... I tried one out about 5 months ago, I played on Ridge Racer for about 15 minutes and watched a bit of a movie that the owner had encoded and stuck onto a (proprietary, and expensive) Sony Memory Stick Duo... So yeah. It's effectively a PS1 on steroids, sandwiched into a handheld. The screen's ok, but pfft... Worth paying £180 for?

Hardly. Double that and you have an alright gaming PC, or an XBox/PS3 for crying out loud. The batteries run out quickly, the games are expensive, Sony's (again, proprietary) UMD format for movies is eeeeeeeeeeexpensive (even in the US, the Sin City UMD was the same price as the DVD! AND that was in a pretty cheap supermarket chain called Target... go figure)... Why waste your dosh? Go buy a really nice LCD screen for your PC, and have an all-night fragging session. I promise you won't be squinting from staring at a small 6" screen, and you won't have sore fingers from all the button-bashing, either.

And finally, in news closer to home... In what might be considered bad karma to some, but just the inevitable to me, my PC has (don't laugh) spectacularly failed on me. Motherboard this time, and although I hope not, possibly ALL of the RAM too. One and a half gig's worth. Joy. Oh well... I'm still happy, still happy, all of my MP3s are on my portable audio player - all I have to do now is stop my mum from kneejerk-calling it an iPod (it's an iRiver, but we owners of these vastly superior machines ;) just call them H140s (if it's the H140 model of course, if it's not then it's called something else, as the iriver.com site explains). Oh, and for the record, iRivers have been around longer than iPods, so technically APPLE jumped on the "i"-prefixing bandwagon. So nur.

Minirant over, yay. Oh, UNIVERSITY BEGINS ON SEPTEMBER THE 19TH! Woo get in my son :D Bring onnnn the poverty.

Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted
into his blog at 9/02/2005 03:53:00 AM. Roughly.
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