Disappointing that there's no new controller, it looks and feels just a bit too big and it has a real 70's vibe that looks dated. Shrinking the amps is fine, but you hide them away in any case, so there's no real gain there.

I guess it's an OK mid-fi system, but I would have preferred to see something more radical as an update, like a higher end player for serious listeners. I'm not into 32 different zones that sound like cheap transistor radios, just one or two high quality ones that I can connect to a good HiFi

The iPhone has the same 3D component as the Nokia N95 (Imagination MBX) and a faster processor, so it should be capable of decent graphics, but it is a general purpose device, not a dedicated 3D gaming platform.

The key to a great gaming platform is a holistic design, where it is not only about a fast processor and some 3D acceleration, but also fast bus speeds, wide data paths and fast RAM, none of which are common on phones as they drain the battery too fast and cost too much.

A DS has a slower clock speed than most phones, but beats them for games because it has dedicated, fast RAM with a wide bus, and games are tuned on the metal to avoid stalls and context switches. That's much harder to do on the iPhone. It's good, but not that good.

Besides all this, the Wii and existing mobile games have shown that simple and addictive gameplay, not having the fanciest graphics, is the key to the casual gaming market, which is where the iPhone sits.

DAB in the UK is old technology (MPEG2), terrible quality and only fit for tiny radios that sound bad anyway. They have opted for many stations at low bit rates, rather then a fewer good quality ones. I sold my DAB tuner last year as it sounded a lot worse than my 20 year old FM tuner. Plus they cost several times the price of a FM or AM radio for that poorer quality.

People have bought DAB radios for more stations, but quite a few stations has since closed down,including some very popular ones.

But the killer for me is that almost no cars are fitted with DAB, so they plan to switch off FM and disable most car radios by 2012 - way to go!

I came across this trying to write a visualizer for iTunes, you can't debug into any code you're developing as you get kicked out of the debugger. This doesn't happen in the Windows version.

It's a real pain and slowed down my development so much that I stopped, it was only for my own amusement and not a commercial enterprise, so really not worth me spending days on it.

There are workarounds, but they involve patching the OS to trap the calls from iTunes to halt the debugging session, so it wasn't worth the risk for me.

Whether it's to stop people circumventing DRM or whatever doesn't matter to me, I had no intention of doing anything like that. What it does mean is that I won't be writing an iTunes plug-ins for Mac any time soon.

One of the actual rocketeers was on Digg and said that the explosion and landing didn't necessarily happen at the same time. It did look an awful lot like petrol going off, not that I could tell the difference between that and solid rocket fuel exploding.

Top Gear has become the modern version of "the Goodies" to some extent, the car reviews take up less and less of the program each week and it's more and more about 3 middle aged men messing about. It's great family viewing, the only programme apart from Doctor Who that I can sit and watch with my family and be entertained.

As for the shuttle launch, I personally think it was all genuine until the landing - there simply wouldnt be enough fuel in the tank for a fireball. I suspect it hit the marshes with a thud and they decided to spice it up with some petrol later on. It doesn't matter at all, it's all meant to be entertainment.

My favourite episodes have to be the cavanning, the rocket-powered mini of the ski jump and the home-built amphibious car. Not to mention the Ann Hathaway's Cottage Mercedes, trip to America...

Great, great entertainment, it really doesn't matter how genuine any of it is.

It's sometimes claimed that medieval glass was made up of inferior quality raw materials and so was "softer", but if this was true then all those other glass artifacts like goblets and bottles would have flattened out too, but they haven't. It's not actually clearcut a myth, because glass can be described as thick gel, but evidence suggests that the thicker edges on stained glass windows were a result of manufacturing.

It's snake-oil. The bits are the same and on a new CD it is very, very uncommon to have any misread that requires error concealment. All other mireads are taken care of by error correction - i.e the error is corrected from extra info on the disk with no guessing involved. In fact I would expect the extra weight of the glass to give some drives problems with maintaining correct spindle speed as the laser traverses the disk and the speed is constantly adjust to maintain a constant stream of data. The glass also has a different refractive index to polycarbonate, so that won't help reading data either. If you looked at the digital output from a CD player reading both disks there is no reason why they'd not be identical unless there were serious manufacturing defects in one or other.

Hard-drive storage on music servers is the way to go, bit perfect every time and then all you have to worry about is jitter.

I think the WiFI connection is a smart move - it allows MS to have a player with a small drive that is adequate for journeys, but at home or the office it becomes a thin client for a music server. That gives you the benefit of lower cost without sacrificing library size.

I already use a PSP as a network player for iTunes when I am at home or near my laptop, It saves me buying a big memory stick and lets me hear *all* my music, not just the small selection that I could fit on a stick.

Also, given the number of city-wide WiFi installations that are mooted, how long before you can hear a song on an FM station on your player, then immediately download it?

As long as they don't try to make it a mini-Pc and remember that it's a consumer device, I'll be investigating it.