Joining the Dark Side: Switching to iPod

"Since this is the first of these regular 'My Tech Life' columns, I thought it best to start with a quick introduction. If you want to read about the iPod stuff, just skip down. In addition to Loyd's regular Notes From the Lab columns every Monday, we're going to start featuring columns on Thursday. Victor Loh and I will alternate each week, so my column will show up twice a month, and I'll bore you (or not) with the details of what's going on with technology in my life. I'm a bit of a media junkie, so expect plenty of columns about digital music and video. By way of history, I was an editor at a games magazine (Computer Games) for five years before landing at ExtremeTech, and an editor at a games Web site (OGR—now part of the vast Internet graveyard) before that. Needless to say, I'm a pretty hardcore gamer, so expect games and game technology to slip in here a lot."