Apple iPod Essentials   Tracking the Pulse of iPod

Jenny-with-the-blue-iPod has joined me as a co-contributor to the blog. Jen and I have been friends (and sometimes enemies) for more than five years now. This past summer she fell in love with the Mini Cooper (color: blue), and later, the iPod Mini (color: blue) when it was first released. Not owning her own computer at the time (a topic I should write about in another post), I took control of her Mini for a day and filled it with a couple thousand songs from my collection. As with the just released iPod Shuffle, the iPod Mini was difficult to get ahold of right after it came out; as I recall it was backordered about eight weeks. She wanted one way too much to wait that long -- cause they were sooo coool, and soooo lucious (and even came in color blue): eBay to the rescue! A week later it was waiting for her at the concierge desk of her building! My was she excited.

Jen and I met one summer during her University break while she was underage bartending at the Redding Roadhouse in Redding, Connecticut. After finishing school, she spent a few years in Wales and outside of London working as an I.T. Recruiter then returned to the States in time for Christmas with the folks, 2003. We got back in touch in April of last year as she was grooving back into the American accents and a new, post-graduation life. (adulthood seems to be a bit of a bummer for her, but I think she's starting to adjust.) As you can read in her profile, she's now doing post-grad work in Education.

I'm hoping she remains as excited about contributing to this blog as she was today when I added her as a team member because I could use someone less focused on the technical and more on the user experience of iPod ownership. I'm a tech guy, she's Apple's target market for iPods. And I like having a female's voice in here to balance my guy sensibilities.

Leave her a welcome greeting in the comments.