Crumb, if you're getting the Creative Zen Vision M, like mine, then I recommend:
Don't take the protective film cover off the display. The display scratches easily.
Order some replacement film covers for the display - you can get them cheap on eBay.
Replace the covers as they get scratched, and save the display. I'm still on the original film cover after about 3 weeks.
Buy one of those silicone rubber 'skins' to protect the whole thing from scratches (these skins don't cover the display though). Again you can get them on eBay.
Try the player with a quality pair of backphones - the sound is much better than with the supplied earplug things.
There are some good guides on how to rip DVDs to the Zen on-line. Worked well for me!
If your Zen is a different model to mine, then I bet it still has the same easy-scratch finish - protect it before any damage is done!
* ceptimus uses his Zen every day now, and is very pleased with it.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A man went on a rampage in the New York City subway Thursday, terrorizing riders with two battery-powered saws and critically wounding a 64-year-old man, police said.
Police arrested the 30-year-old man.
"The suspect encountered a 64-year-old male who was entering the subway station and assaulted the man in the chest before fleeing the scene," said Sgt. Kevin Hayes of the New York Police Department. "The victim was removed and taken to St. Luke's Hospital in critical but stable condition."
The Associated Press said the victim was Michael Steinberg.
Steinberg told reporters that the assailant never spoke. "I think he was out of his mind," he told the AP. (Watch as the victim is taken to the hospital -- :52)
Steinberg was about to swipe his subway card through a turnstile when he was approached by the man with the saws, the victim told the AP.
"He looked at me and before I knew it, he was attacking me," Steinberg told the AP. "The motor kept going on. He was trying to cut through me."
"I screamed for help -- 'Please help! Please help me!' "
The attacker finally stopped attacking him to demand money, then ran out of the station with Steinberg's wallet and the power tools, Steinberg told the AP.
The incident happened about 3:30 a.m. on the platform of the No. 1 train at 110th Street and Broadway, near Columbia University.
Police said the saws were recovered in a garbage can on 110th Street.
"The man grabbed the two cordless power saws off a workbench where a private contractor was working on the subway. They placed their tools in a cutoff area on the subway platform." Metropolitan Transit Authority spokesman James Anyansi said.
Police are reviewing security camera videotape.
The attack came two weeks after a Boston man was charged with stabbing four people, three of them tourists, over 13 hours in the subway and in the theater district in Manhattan.
"Breast ironing" -- the use of hard or heated objects or other substances to try to stunt breast growth in girls -- is a traditional practice in West Africa, experts say.
A new survey has revealed it is shockingly widespread in Cameroon, where one in four teenagers are subjected to the traumatic process by relatives, often hoping to lessen their sexual attractiveness.
Re: Countdown from one million thread
for all us countdowners.
, what's up with that!? I want one of my own too... 
You do know, of course, that with your user name every smilie is your own?
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