If you don’t recall Part 1, check it out here.

Well, just a fast update:
- The Chrome Citizen still rocks in terms of style and handling. My everyday bag, sometimes a bit to small. Still miss a laptop sleeve and a padded, more rigid back.

- The Bagaboo Workhorse L: Wow, just visited a friend some days ago. Had a sleeping bag, a inflatable mattress (deflated), clothes and everything else you need on a trip with me. Inside the bag! It’s huge. The strap system rocks, and can be adjusted on the fly perfectly. Did not yet kill any of the plastic clips. Currently mostly used for grocery shopping; I get a weeks worth of food in the bag.

In conclusion, both bags hold up to the expectations so far. Still use the Chrome a bit more as it’s smaller, but like the Bagaboo a tat more.

Recent updates: Bagaboo redesigned their website and introduced a new “Eco” line of bags.
Chrome now has a “Back Alley” with some bags on sale.

News from our very favorite leap year bug: New Zune HD will be available in stores “in fall 2009″ – and it’s coming to Europe. In this saturated market, where one either has an iPod or a cheapo MP3 player, the new Zune is likely to fail unless it has some killer feature. I found none on the press release so far, so the Zune appears to rely on his trademark bug.

Get the full specs on the official website: http://www.zune.net/en-us/mp3players/zunehd/default.htm

As of now it is yet unknown whether the new Zune will still feature our favorite leap year bug.

Edit: Just got the word that the Zune won’t be available in Europe; whereas the new store that comes with it will be. And I was sooooooooo looking forward to buy one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml

That was a draft from April 28th – no idea why I didn’t publish it, so here it is.

Maybe I’ll tell you. If I finally get pics to work, I might even show you what car I bought.

Because Leuk set me up, here’s my statement for the MacNotes raffle:

I’ve had my first encounter with a Mac around 2000, and had to support them. OS X was just taking his first steps, and, honestly: it rocked and sucked at the same time. Most of the Macs we supported were still running OS 9, though, which sucked even more. We discontinued that support, and I stopped playing with Macs for quite a while, before I bought my first Mac, a ‘Late 2004 14,1″ iBook G4′ – actually the same model that Leuk bought. OS X was stable and cool by now, and the hardware…I can’t really recall how many raving reviews I wrote. I quickly became a Mac addict and religiously followed any Keynote…

I updated to a MacBook in January 2007, and passed the iBook on to a friend, who bought it for his mom. Even she, at 50+, has had no problem in learning her way around the system. The iBook isnt’ the fastest notebook, but still does it’s daily work without even starting the fan.
My MacBook is a bit louder, much faster, but the hardware just evolved, no drastic changes, and is still the best product on the market. Except for the unibody MacBooks, of course. It’s fast, reliable, and the OS is a dream.

And that’s the short version of why I ♥ my Mac.

Only available in german, sorry.