You could have blown me over with a whisper. You could have fed me liver and onions, and I would have smiled. You could have sold me an asking-price house with a variable rate mortgage in Stockton — well, you get the idea. I was surprised! That’s because my spouse has decided it’s time she had an iPod in her life. This from a girl who — although she reads about technology practically daily in any number of online publications — prefers to spend her money on shoes, clothes, housewares and our son. And here she was, handing me the best early holiday gift ever — a solid idea for what I could give her for Christmas.

Since I haven’t upgraded my iPod since receiving a free shuffle from a professional contact, the thought of finding out what’s cool from Apple has great appeal for me. It’s gotta be loaded with space, because this will probably be the only iPod she’ll have for a very long time and there are a ton of iUniversity podcasts she wants to tune into. Plus, it has to play video, since she lives with two other human beings who will want to play around with that capability. Last, it would be nice if it came in pink — to match her Dell computer — but I’m guessing that’s of lesser importance than the other features.

So, over the next few blog postings, I’m going to explore iPod recommendations and reviews and figure out which one she’ll find wrapped under the tree come December.

Posted on August 19th, 2008 by dian