More Bush cronyism

This story from The Globe and Mail is interesting from two points of view. It's another example of Bush appointing a clueless crony to office, in this case ambassador to Canada, and it reveals the extent to which the US Government regards non US citizens who are unfortunate enough to fall into its clutches as less than fully human. One might also add that it shows how gutless the Canadian government is when it comes to dealing with the bully state to the south.

Kitten update

We are currently going through the rather trying process of getting the kittens to eat on their own. They are starting to get the hang of it but there is much lying down in dishes of food, plodding stolidly through or over dishes of food, scattering food in all directions and just about all other imaginable forms of kitten messiness. Such is life with small kittens with no mom cat.

MP3 players

As reported previously the lovely lemur bought me an RCA Lyra Sport MP3 player for my birthday. There was a snag. Despite being advertised as being Mac compatible the simple act of downloading files to it appeared to corrupt the system files rendering it useless. Two exemplars have now been returned and I'm in the hunt for something else. If money were no object (hollow laugh) I'd get one of the new Nanopods. It's the right (physical) size and is sure to work with Mac OS but it's about twice as expensive as I feel justified in paying.

What I need is a player for using when I'm running. It needs to be light, have an armband, work with Mac OSX and that's about it really. 256MB is fine as I don't intend it to be a primary storage unit for music. Anyone got any bright ideas?