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I traded my buddy John his mint PSP that I plan to turn around for a White Microsoft Zune 30GB that I found on my Forums FS/FT Thread Notifier.

This thing is pretty cool. I’m neither a Mac nor M$ fanboi, but in the ~4 hours I spent with the Zune, it looks a lot cooler than my 5th 80gb gen iPod. The interface didn’t feel as smooth, but the fact that it has A/V output and radio was pretty sweet. It’s cheaper than an iPod too, those things (along with all Mac products) are always way overpriced.

At any rate, pretty neat.

My Samsung 46″ DLP TV is now making a high pitched squeal after about an hour to 1.5 hours of usage. The only fix is to shut it off. A lot of people are saying that this is caused by the color wheel. When for sale, it looks to be $100-$150 on eBay.

I’ve already had the lamp replaced twice, so I’m starting to think this TV wasn’t such a good deal after all.

Man how annoying.

I had a McSkillet Burrito from McDonald’s today, something they’ve been pushing into every commercial slot they get for about a month now. They’re touting it as though it’s healthy, but I assure you, it’s far from it. The burrito rather tasted like left overs from all of their other breakfast sandwiches piled into one, with a little sauce and peppers pushed in at the last minute. It could be that I’m sick, or it could be that this burrito was completely disgusting, but I rather feel like upchucking it.

It’s a shame I bought two for breakfast this morning. I don’t think this food is fit for my dogs…

I got sick of the little quirks with my Sprint LG Fusic (LX550). I’ve used it moderately since I started my SERO plan with Sprint in 11/06. Frankly the LG Fusic was the cheapest phone with the biggest discounts, but it turns out there’s a reason it was cheap.

On top of everything Joel said, anytime I put this device in my pocket, it seems to starting playing music. Now, I don’t think my pocket’s random button presses can outsmart a screen lock, but there seems to be no way to lock it completely out of the media player. I tested it to validate what my pocket told me, if you hold down the play button (on the outside of the unit), then press a direction, it will browse your music library. Pressing play again starts to play your music. If the phone is on “silent”, it doesn’t care, the media player works on its own volume. What kind of feature is this…? It seems like the only solution to having it not play music when random buttons are pressed is to delete my music library.

The above is just a minor quirk, I’m aware, unless of course I’m in a meeting and have to explain why Ozzie is singing “Bark at the Moon” from my pocket. I never have and probably never will use this phone for music listening, video watching, or any of the other things for which it was intended. I dislike the interface, but it’s functional, barely. This combined with the fact that I’m missing my digital to-do list devices of the past, namely and most notably my Viewsonic V37 PocketPC, I’ve decided to upgrade my phone.

So I bought used (found with the Forum FS/FT Thread Notifier) a Palm Treo 700wx. It is a little less powered than my Viewsonic V37 was (312MHz XScale compared to 400MHz XScale) — btw how is this even possible, my Viewsonic was made in like 2003. At any rate, I look forward to getting this going and playing around with it. It should at least hold me over until Android devices are out.