Well its been a good couple of days for gadgets. I’m now the proud owner of both an EeePC and an iPod Touch.

The EeePC (which I’m typing this on) is a great little gadget, but it suffers from the problems with my wifi that I’ve had with Linux on my other laptop. Linux and WPA really don’t seem to get on at all. I know from reading posts online that people have gotten it working, but it seems to come with a fair amount of grief. At the moment I’ve dropped my home wifi down to WEP encryption, but that’s not really a proper solution.

However, with my router switched to WEP the EeePC connected no bother and its been great to use tonight. I’ve been chatting to friends with Pidgin and surfing the web happily. I’m looking forward to parking myself in a coffee shop for lunch with it

The iPod Touch is also a cracking gizmo. It’ll make for a great PDA-lite for me, as well as giving me more music and audiobooks on the go. While I love my iPod Nano, I have found the 4Gb a bit restricting at times. Especially as I like my audiobooks.

The great thing is that WPA works flawlessly, so I had it connected to my wifi network in no time. There’s probably not much more I can say about it, but its been great fun, checking my email on-the-fly via the mail application.

One thing I’m really looking forward to is the app store launching. I think the release of user-written applications will really open the device up. It’ll be interesting to see what’s included in the first batch. Among other things, I’m hoping to see an IM application, as I think that could be really handy.