I got 5 Jag t-shirts/polos. I went shopping with my sister. They ended up costing $15 each which was a bargain and this was before Christmas without the boxing day madness. I also got $50 giftcard for Hoyts and another $50 for Village so I'll be seing a lot of movies this year, especially over the next few weeks as there's some good ones to see. Village also have their see three movies and get one free offer. I would have liked a new macbook but I think the pro would be better with a bigger screen. ATM with the exchange rate they are just too expensive.

I have been using the Logitech Wave for a few months now and the shortcut keys are great on the keyboard though I still seriously miss not having a 'Right Click' in-between the right ALT & CTRL keys instead is a 'Function' key and it is 'Function -> Print Screen' to get a keyboard shortcut for right clicking whilst at the keyboard for word spell check etc which is quite annoying.

I am also still a massive fan of the MX Revolution mouse and is the best mouse I have ever used.

As for geeky additions there wasn't really that much going around the family this year though I did get myself an Xbox 360 just before Christmas and will get to writing about this experience soon needless to say it is better than I thought it was going to be.

I bought a LED colour bar - about 1m long and with about 250 LEDs, because I thought it looked cool :)

Still waiting for it to arrive though...

I bought myself a Sony USB turntable from JB. Access to all my old LP's at last. Spent days and hours trying every changeable option in the software and in XP, swapped leads, plugged and unplugged leads on my sound card, searched the net, asked CW. I could not get a peep out of it (except for horrendous noises that scared my dog into next week. The only thing I did not try was unplug the toaster.
After 3 days I give up, drive the 50 km to Ballarat and show it to the salesman. No *&^%$@# stylus. I had looked, it had a removable cartridge on the arm, it looked like a stylus, but no, that bit had been pinched. There was another (cheaper) Sony turntable on the shelf which HAD a stylus. Would the salesman remove it and put it in my new turntable, NO WAY. He would have to order one in. NO WAY, so I asked for a refund and drove 50km home in disgust.
I had installed the software and I had a twin RCA to stereo adapter and I had my old Technics turntable, far better than the basic Sony one. So I gave it a go. A bit more stuffing around with settings and away it went. Even the dog came home.
All's well that ends well and now I can have my LP's on my ZEN player.

Steven Mendelson