I probably should have written this as soon as I got home, as I’ve since had a little sleepy and some lush foods (M&S Sweet Pumpkin and Amaretti Biscuit Ravioli, far nicer than it sounds), I feel less like ranting.
Well it seems the iPod is well and truly b0rked. I put RockBox on it and it still refuses to play anything. I do now have a spangly theme on it and loads of games though. Whee!
Decided I’ll probably buy myself the iPod Touch. 8Gb is a hell of a difference to 80Gb, but it has wifi-ness. Which my phone doesn’t have. So at the Turtle internets will be free. I am tempted by the 120Gb iPod Classic. But they’re both pretty much the same price and also the only 2 that are cheaper than getting mine repaired.
Current plan is to call up Apple and ask to get on the Higher Education discount. See what I can get it for. Might end up going for the 32Gb Touch if haggling goes well.
First off thanks to everyone who sent me birthday wishes, presents, etc. 
I had a pretty good birthday this year. Dyed my hair stupidly bright orange and purple. Went to the Turtle, met up with some friends for drinks and then headed on over to ZeroDegrees for yummy pizzas. Checked out the new Rising landlords too. They’ve cleaned the place up a lot, but insist on having all the lights on full brightness all the time and they’ve taken the side shades off the strip light above the table football table. I spent most of the time blinded and my mates were all silhouettes.
Got most of my OU stuff through. I’ve managed to read all my set texts, in fact I only have the DVD of ‘Bhaji on the Beach‘ left to watch. Looked through my Assignment questions and got terrified! Looked at the student forums and saw almost everyone doing AA100 is equally terrified - felt much better! Got my Tutorial dates through as well, was a bit miffed at first as I’m meant to get to Oxford (for the record, bloody miles away) for 09:30 on a few Saturdays which is never gonna happen. Luckily an e-mail from my Tutor confirms these aren’t mandatory - phew! I’m hoping to OD on the on-line aids provided so I don’t miss out too much from not attending the day schools.
Went to listen to my iPod (5.5G 80Gb) on Saturday and it refused to play. It whirrs up but just sits at 00:00. Video seems to crash it completely. Reset it about 8 or 9 times with no joy. Did a full restore, still dead. Found quite a few others have had this happen since the latest firmware update (v1.3). Downgraded the firmware to v1.2.3, still no joy. Going to try putting RockBox on it and see if that works. It’s out of warranty and getting it fixed would cost as much as getting a new one. 
I don’t mind getting a new one so much, but I hate the thought of getting rid of this when everything except music/video works on it! Even if it’s just an expensive Mah Jongg player, it’s something!
I was lucky enough to get to see Clutch play at the Zodiac@Oxford Academy on the 18th. Was also a good excuse to try out my new Flip Ultra video camera. Was a good venue to test it out in as I could get near the front and the sound was superb. If I’d known how well the Flip was going to perform I’d have taken much more footage! As it is, here’s 50-odd seconds of Burning Beard.
So, another festival is over. Not a great one this year in all fairness.
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Went to exchange my ticket for a wristband on the Thursday and found the signs for the exchange were absolutely dire. In fact we only saw one and the only place you could see it was AFTER you’d been through the exchange tent. Not good enough…
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I saw this advert yesterday and immediately started shouting “BRING ON THE TRUMPETS!” at every opportunity. No-one else had seen it though, so I looked more like a nutter than usual. Now I can share! 
First off, against all the odds I survived. I’m here to tell the tale. I’ve been ill though, with festival germs so it’s taken a while for me to get around to this.
I’ve been playing Rock Band a fair bit since I got it a few weeks ago and… I LOVE IT! The Guitar controller is a MUCH better shape for me and although the strumbar having no clicky sound throws me a bit I think it’s probably better and wish I’d started out with a silent strumbar so I’d be used to it.
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I got a message the other week on my BlackBerry about google sync. So now I have my Google calendar synchronizing with my BlackBerry calendar and it totally rocks! Cos I’m now using it a lot more I have my Outlook synchronizing with the google calendar too and also added my FaceBook events to my google calendar, I also used an application to enter all my facebook friends’ birthdays onto my google calendar.
So now everything is to hand on my BlackBerry. I love that thing soooo much. Screw Nokia and their shitty CS department. Though it will be nice to upgrade my Pearl in December. Looking forward to getting one with GPS, only thing mine is really missing.
With things still not back to normal on TV with the writer’s strike (Bones is only 15 episodes this season) and everything (Bones & NCIS anyway) ending next week, I was looking to new things to watch. IRC people kept on at me so a couple of weeks ago I gave in and started watching BSG.
Haven’t done too badly as tonight I’ll be up to date with the current episodes of series 4. I watched the Razor mini episodes last night and the Razor special. I can blast my way through stuff so quickly when I put my mind to it. I pretty much just replace sleep with watching the screen.
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