I live!

What a hectic bunch of weeks, I am glad that's all over.

CES is here, go watch the Keynote speech by Bill Gates, they show off some cool new things about Vista, Bill's view of where technology is headed and, to top it all off, Ballmer gets pissed when Bill beats him at a boxing game on the xBox 360.

I picked up a Zen MicroPhoto on boxing day, and I am enthrawled by it so far. Creative has launched a new webservice and application aimed at getting podcasts onto Zens. (I prefer Blogcast, podcast is such a misnomer) The program is called Zencast, it is essentially a podcast aggregator and sync agent for the Zens. It can remove old 'casts from the player at a preset interval. While still a beta (we love our betas these days, don't we?) the program is fairly spiffy, easy to use, fast and straight forward. I hope they add a few things to it such as the ability to rename a podcast (for some reason, PowerUser.tv has no title) and to set the genre to something, possibly other than what it was on the host's computers, so that you can find it easier by browsing Genres on the Zen itself. Perhaps Creative could add a Zencast menu item on all it's resent Zens to help (like what Apple did on the iPod)

Last item, as you may have heard, Microsoft released a patch for the WMF hole, head over to Microsoft Update to get the patch. Alternatively, you can get the redistributable downloads here.

Song of the week: Ladybird by Ladytron on their album 604