Last November I bought a refurbished iPod Touch (128 GB) from Apple for $489, this was a saving of $90 on new price. Now, with the demise of non-app iPods, it's $449 new.

Alas, I must. Got to get some medical forms to my mother for her to fill in ASAP.

Damaging winds with gusts up to 105 kph forecast for today. It's pretty nasty already and only 7 am.

Tasty tiny bite-sized curried vegetable pies, 45mm in diameter. Very nice indeed.

Wasn't much fun taking Mum home from hospital on Wed afternoon. Caught up in traffic going home from the CBD, left just after 4 pm. Next Wed I have to get her there by that same time. No fun.

An American tourist is visiting Russia, and he's talking with a Russian about the fact that not many people in Russia own cars.

American: "I can't believe you don't have cars here! How do you get to work?"
Russian: "We take the bus, or the subway. We have public
transportation everywhere."
A: "Well, how do you go on vacations?"
R: "We take the train."
A: "Well, what if you want to go abroad?"
R: "We don't ever want go abroad."
A: "Well, what if you really HAVE to go abroad?"
R: "We take tanks."

Amazing!

100x faster, 10x cheaper: 3D metal printing is about to go mainstream.

http://d.pr/lOw60

I have a black 80 GB iPod Classic that still works fine, except the screen is cracked.

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I have a stick-type iPod Shuffle (the one without controls other than a switch) plus a 6th gen Nano (watch type) and somewhere there's a 5th gen Nano but I can't find it at present. Do they count?

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