New to me, that is. I recently adopted an iPod Touch from a friend who had upgraded to a Pre and didn’t want the Touch anymore. It came with me on my recent trip to NYC and I had a chance to put it through its paces pretty thoroughly along the way.

I like it quite a bit — for games, web browsing, and of course music. Battery life is decent (a cross-country flight didn’t even drain half the charge) and the screen is lovely. But I am still glad that I didn’t get an iPhone. The iPod’s virtual keyboard does not even come close to being as good as a real keyboard and I’d go nuts trying to manage my email with it.

I do feel a bit silly carrying an iPod Touch as well as a Blackberry. I think it’s the size. I’ve had an iPod Nano for ages, so I shouldn’t feel different about the Touch, but it is bigger than a Nano and that seems to matter. Even so, it’s not a showstopping issue.

I really hate the lack of a decent web browser on the Blackberry but its superb email handling still makes it the winning smartphone for my needs. Unless an AT&T Palm Pre comes out and utterly blows me away, looks like I’ll be staying a two-gadget gal for the foreseeable future.

Seen in Flickr today. Apparently it’s a gag, not for real.

On the one hand, this type of commercial would be a natural extension to the existing “I’m a Mac / I’m a PC” campaign Apple has been running.

On the other hand, would doing so give the Zune too much legitimacy? Probably.

I have officially had it with my 3G iPod. Although it works beautifully as a stand-alone MP3 player, I’m sick to death of having to spend 1-2 hours hammering on my PC trying to get the damn FireWire connection to work every time I want to sync it with iTunes.

I’m going to put them both up on eBay when I get home.

Although I’ve owned an iPod for quite some time now, and have bought at least 50 individual iTunes, today was the first time I actually bought an entire album from iTunes. It’s one I’ve been meaning to buy for a while but never got around to it, and decided I’d rather not wait for it to be shipped.

Rock out to Matisyahu, all y’all!

And now I need to remember to burn a copy to CD.

Looking at this assortment, I’m tempted to call it the “WTF Edition”. What a mess. That’s what you get when you randomize the entire list though.

Iko Iko – Cyndi Lauper
Wide Open Spaces – Dixie Chicks
Windswept – Bryan Ferry
Carolina On My Mind – James Taylor
Don’t Stand So Close To Me ’86 – The Police
Shape of My Heart – Backstreet Boys
South Ferry Road – The Hooters
Baby Grand – Billy Joel
A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes – Cinderella
God Save the Queen – The Sex Pistols

No new cat pix today, sorry to say.

Haven’t done this in a while … here’s my totally random 10 from iTunes today:

I Like It Like That – Tito Puente
Bon Voyage – Vangelis
Hear the Voices – The Manhattan Transfer
The Safety Dance – Men Without Hats
Zanzibar – Billy Joel
With Every Breath I Take – City of Angels (Original Broadway Cast)
Land Of Confusion – Phil Collins
I Guess I’ll Miss The Man – Pippin (Original Broadway Cast)
H.M.S. Pinafore – My Gallant Crew, Good Morning – Gilbert & Sullivan
Everyday – Phil Collins

Haven’t done this in a while!

Sweet Potato Pie – James Taylor
Only A Dream – Mary Chapin Carpenter
Inside – Sting
Blow Wind Blow – Alison Moyet
Shepherd Moons – Enya
Lohengrin, Prelude – Richard Wagner
Burn Down The Mission – Elton John
Jump (For My Love) – Pointer Sisters
Self Control – Laura Branigan
The Wild Frontier – Bruce Hornsby and the Range

Here’s the rules: Open iTunes, randomize your playlist, and write down the first 10 songs that come up.