links for 2008-01-15

“We often believe… that the Christian life is about how well we can learn to hide our sin… but the Christian life is not about hiding; it’s not about living in fear.

The best thing that could ever happen… is that your sin would be literally exposed on the five o’clock news.”

–Derek Webb

“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.”

–Henry Ford

“My work is a game, a very serious game.”
–M.C. Escher

It’s iPod, Except with More… Touching… in a Good Way…

I’m now the proud owner of one 16-gigabyte iPod touch, and after a good half-day of messing with it and playing to try and figure the thing out, I have to say that I’m coming away from the first experiences very, very impressed. I find that music library management is going to be difficult for me, at least at first, as I’ve just now filled up my 40-gig fourth generation iPod, and Smart Playlists have become much more important for both iPods. I may have to pick up a 160-gig iPod classic at some point to continue to have at least one device that contains my entire music collection.

In any case, I wanted to jot down some of my thoughts for those who read, so if you’re thinking about picking one up, or you have questions about it, I figure more of those will be handled by what I have to say. You can already see some of my commentary in my tweets from earlier this evening, while I was messing around with it.

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