No Photos on the PSP

I'm unable to view pictures on my PSP now. No more slideshows, sharing pictures, or viewing JPG exports from PDF files - no reading my magazines!

What's happening is that I can view the first ten or so pictures from an album or from the main Photo directory, but after that the PSP just crashes. All the photos are either baseline or progressive JPG files, come either from my digital camera or from a photo editor (iPhoto or Fireworks MX), are under 100KB in size and have been added to the PSP either manually using a Mac or via synching through PSPWare.

This all began to happen soon after I installed the v2.50 upgrade from Sony. Big problem is that I can't downgrade to v2.00 according to the tech support from Sony. I was asked but discounted the possibility of physical damage to the unit.

The Sony support guys asked me to format the MS in the PSP, then reset the defaults, then re-format the MS. I was able to view a bunch of iPhoto thumbnail files alright, but still haven't been able to view more than 10 "regular" images on the PSP without a crash.

I'm either going to have to wait for the next system upgrade, switch to my Palm for all my document reading, or experiement by using a PC to transfer the files over to my PSP.

I'm pretty pissed off right now.

Video iPod

We all new it was coming...
What an impressive peice of hardware. It's definitely slimmer than I expected, but it features a much smaller screen than I was hoping for. It would be a great up-grade. I could get rid of my old iPod and watch more movies on my new one... but the screen of my PSP is so much bigger for watching movies.
+ slimmer
+ larger capacity
+ cool color (black)
+ click wheel (vs. my Gen3 model)
+ remote control via dock
+ nice screen
- small screen
- would have to sell my old iPod

This is a nice walk-through of using MacTheRipper and Handbrake to convert DVD's into a format that can be viewed on the new video iPod.
Ripping movies to the iPod

What surprises me is the amount of anti-iPod sentiment there is out there. What's up? If you don't like it, shaddup! and buy whatever peice of crap you'd rather be lugging around. What's the matter, hate to be reminded how awesome Apple is compared to that crappy WinBox company you keep buying from? Whatever.

Hanashi Station Show

Is there going to be a show that I have to submit by October 7th?? Yikes!