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With all the talk about Apple iPods in the last few weeks, I quickly began to entertain the thought of buying one myself. Then, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it was the most convenient way for me to enjoy music in the upcoming year.

As most of you know, music is a huge part of my life. I am listening to it constantly, whether that means walking around the city or campus with my headphones on, driving with the cds going, sitting behind my computer while the cds provide a soundtrack to my internet surfing, or whatever.

As I am now preparing to return to Russia for a year, I have spent more time and thought concerning what cds I should bring with me than any other items I will need to pack. My collection is huge and I obviously cannot bring them all with me, or even all the ones I want to listen to most. This is a great dillema in my mind.

The solution: the Apple iPod mp3 player.

With it, I can not only bring all of my cds with me, but carry all of them in my pocket at the same time. As reagan more or less put it once, it is a true feeling of power for the music lover to have his whole collection on a device the size of a wallet and readily available within a few taps of the finger.

I bought my iPod on Wednesday, so I am still goofing around with it, customizing things, and organizing my music so that I can access it in minimal time. With a few clicks I was able to transfer all of my MS Outlook contacts to my iPod. The newest iPod software also supports the cyrillic alphabet (something that even a lot of windows based mp3 players still screw up on), so the ID3 tags for all of my Russian music displays properly. It can also put .txt files on the device to make notes to myself or just store important information ( I just put my flight itineraries on there). The iPod truly blurs the line between an mp3 player and a PDA.

Wow. I love this thing.