Yep. It looks like my wonderful little iPod has reached it’s end.

What a sad, sad day. It started acting up yesterday on the way home from work. I changed selections and it froze. So, I let the battery die (not that I had a choice) and let it rest for a while. Plugged it in to see what would happen and still had issues. Then, this morning, I was able to do a reset on it. Looked like it would work, but, did not. t just won’t play.

So, tonight I tried to do a restore and that is what I got.

I was so hoping an orange nano would come out before it died. I really want orange, but the shuffle just won’t fit my needs. I’ll likely get the (PRODUCT) RED nano, but we’ll have to see.

**UPDATE: It’s lives!!!!!!! Tricia helped me get it to restore. Then the thing just kept wanting to restore. But, looking on Apple.com I found a good article. I popped it into disk mode, ran it through a disk check, and then the restore finished and I could start putting music on it. Wooohooo.

I saw this posted on TUAW today and just had to share.

Here’s a link to the entire set on flickr. Yes, I am completely jealous.

And, to top off the day, Apple announced a new line of color shuffles. And whop-your-jaw they FINALLY are coming out with orange. Keep your fingers crossed for an orange nano – Dawn has already been made aware I will not be able to control myself – I’ll likely be required to by one. hahaha

Let me just say – I was blown away with today’s Macworld announcements. We all knew the ‘iTV’ was due out, and it does look awesome. At $299 it really looks like a great device. Then there is the iPhone. WOW. A lot of people had speculated about it for a looooong time now.

<pic via TUAW.com>

Recently, we switched over to Verizon, from Cingular since I was sick of dropped calls. I really hope it has been fixed because this thing could actually get me to switch back. The capabilities on the phone are amazing, and the potential for ‘what’s to come’ after this device is endless. Yes, I’m really excited about this. Really.

TUAW.com was ‘liveblogging’ the event today, and admittedly I spent a little time on that site today. hahaha. But this is really cool stuff.

Here’s an interesting example of the impact this announcement had today:
“Apple’s one-button bounce on the day was a stunning $6.1 billion”

“Investors dump RIM as Apple launches iPhone”

yes folks, oh the times they are a (hopefully) changin’. hahaha

got to go to a friend’s house on Friday – he recently was lucky enough to buy a Wii. Before going over, I did warn my wife that this would “give me bad ideas” but she still agreed that I should go. And yes, my prediction was correct – I NEED A Wii!!!!! The controller was so amazing, especially the responsiveness —- the thing is wireless and I did not notice a delay. The Wii is so much fun.

if anyone is feeling REALLY nice and wants to get me an xmas gift

This is great. Legos are one the greatest inventions of all time so you can imagine how happy I was to come across this article.

1949 – The Automatic Binding Brick -later to become- “Lego Mursten”, Danish for masonry

I found this off William Gibson’s blog and had to share it here as well. This is amazing, think of the potential this has.

So I somehow deleted my entire ‘Downloads’ folder from the Mac. Crap. This sucks. If anyone has ideas for recovery, please let me know. Dang….