Hooray! I have a Chumby!

I've been waiting patiently for one for quite a while, and perhaps I happened to send the insider's information to my dad a month ago. Meanwhile, he's in the other room playing with the Nabaztag that I got him! We're a wifi'd family this year.

So far I'm really impressed - I got it to sync with my facebook profile immediately and pull pictures & profile updates, and now I've got the email reader working as well. Updated to the new beta control panel (which thus far works great - including MP3's from my USB stick and streaming radio -- looking forward to see if Pandora can be implemented).

The only real quirk that I've run in to so far is that none of my email messages (which are sorting in the right order) seem be be readable. Not a big deal since all I really wanted was to just know whether or not a new message came in.

Anyways... I'll be doing some more tooling around with my new toy, but overall out-of-the-box I'm very satisfied. I'm worried about the screen heat issue, but if you chumby guys say it's okay than I'll wait until it fails to say "gimme a new screen!" Ha ha.

Cheers, and Merry Christmas to all!

Dave