iPod nano covers

The long-awaited nano covers have arrived, so I can now use my beloved new toy with impunity. I've been really restrained up till now and not used it, which has been quite a struggle and has needed lots of willpower.

The cases themselves, disappointingly, are more "sleeves" than all-over body-armour; the nice young lady at Apple did tell me as much when I bought them, but I didn't really realise that they come with no degree of screen protection at all (in fact the gap for the screen is the bit you use to actually get the contraption into its sleeve). I think they're much the same as the sleeves that you used to be able to get for iPod minis, though I wouldn't swear to it, never having even seen one of the things. However, looking like a selection of rectangular luminous condoms, they come in packs of 5, which is four more than I need, so I've given three away - one each to Dan, Ashleigh and Mark (who bought one while on his Hols, bringing nano ownership in our team to an impressive 60%). I've kept the nicer colours for myself, naturally.

I might see about constructing some sort of cack-handed Heath Robinson affair of a screen cover, using only a section of transparent plastic from the packaging, a teaspoon, and a pound of parma ham. This may end up being quite dangerous.