I gots me a new shiny. A black 160GB iPod Classic. A student was selling it for 3/4 of the Apple.com price so even though my podlet is more or less working (requires a bash against the wall every now and then) I took the opportunity to snag this new shiny one. I’m so in love with the way you can scan through album covers that I’ve just spent 2 hours making sure all 4658 of my songs have album covers (technically 4657 since one is a .wav of Thom purring and can’t have a cover set). Tomorrow (or rather, later today, since it’s gone 4am already) I plan to sort out the misbehaving audiobooks that are masquerading as music albums. It even has a tunnel version of Breakout! I can’t quite come to terms with the idea of videos and movies yet – that’s a bit advanced for me.
Also on my new shinies list is a Alba TV/DVD combo – since moving into halls in November I have been using our spare TV and even though I have a powered booster antenna I could only get BBC 2 and Channel 4 – bad reception. Luckily I rarely want to watch ITV or Five, and parental units record BBC 1 progs for me. I bought this Alba TV for £35 from another student (end of year, they’re all emptying their rooms!) simply because I’m fed up of watching movies at lap height on my lappy. The weird thing is that despite the fact I have attached the Alba to the same booster aerial it now picks up BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV and Channel 4! Bonus! Plus, unlike the spare TV it has analogue connectors also (no scart, but the little red, yellow and white ones) which means it can communicate with my PS2.
All’s well with the world! Just have to wait for iPod to finish syncing then I can go to bed. And shortly afterwards get up again.