chickenfeet

Our Samsung laser printer finally died. We got eight years out of it which seems reasonable. Its demise triggered the next level of wirelessness in our network set up. We replaced the dead printer with a wireless enabled printer/scanner which means that use of the printer or scanner from lemur_catta's Mac is no longer dependent on my Mac being turned on. We also installed UPnP server software on her Mac so she can play media files off her Mac on the Blu-ray player. The last hard wired shared components are thus eliminated and everything is completely wireless.

The bad. In my new role at work I am forced to use Microserf Project. That's "project" as in "projectile vomitting" I think. It's an utterly crap piece of sotware. It crashes with monotonous regularity and it seems determined to be as counterintuitive as possible. We hatesss it we does.

The good. I have arranged things so that the lemur's shiny MacBook can be hooked up to the big screen TV and the surround sound system. This allows us to watch AVIs on something larger than a 17" screen. The quality is remarkably good.

I got a cassette adapter for my iPod Shuffle today. This is most useful since my car stereo doesn't play MP3 disks. So now I can listen to the same audio book when I'm driving as when I am working out rather than having two different ones on the go. And it was only C$20.

Until a couple of minutes ago i was happily listening to the BBC commentary from Twickenham. An hour into the game it was replaced by a message saying the BBC didn't have the contractual rights for the current broadcast. WTF?

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?