Okay, so yesterday I actually managed to speak to a “genius” at the Apple Store and he restored the iPod software on my Nano. And that’s all okay, except… quite often whilst the iPod is connected to the computer it will suddenly wipe all the data. All songs, gone. I can make it happen predictably by trying to copy album artwork over with the songs, so that’s disabled now, but it’s still happening unpredictably for some other reason. Grrrr.
My computer also had trouble with the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs CD. It decided that the first track was 49 minutes long (i.e. it contained the whole album) and that the second track was 15 hours long (maybe it contained a secret message from an alien intelligence?). Track three onwards are fine. I must check it an a regular CD player to see if it’s the CD and not the computer.
Doctor Who starts two weeks yesterday, and the BBC promotions machine is in full swing. Tennant and Piper are in all the weekend newspapers (oh dear, the David Tennant fashion article in the Guardian…). But much more excitingly on the web site there are trailers and “Tardisodes” (BTW, who would pay through the nose to download these to a mobile rather than watch them online?). And Mickey’s updated his web site as well (be sure to follow all the links.).
I’m trying to catch up with the 8th Doctor novels. I’ve reached The Last Resort and now have a dilemma. I have six of the remaining nine books but not Timeless or Sometime Never. The latter is definitely crucial to the ongoing arc and I think the former is quite important as well. Yesterday I looked in three Waterstones, two Borders, two Books Etc., Forbidden Planet, Blackwells, Foyles[1], WHSmiths and the BBC Shop. No luck. Amazon are saying that they dispatch in 4 to 6 weeks, which if past performance is anything to go by means that there’s only a 50-50 chance at best of Amazon being able to dispatch them at all.
At least Oxford have run the boat race.
Oh, and the flat is currently full of knitters. But they brought cake so that’s okay.
[Update] - I just remembered that whilst I was in Foyles I noticed a stocky, balding chap staring at me as he walked past. Just after he left the store I realised that this was almost certainly Dom Sandbrook, whom I have mentioned before on this blog. Gosh, he has a Wikipedia entry, and I wonder whether if anyone I know was responsible for the ‘vandalism’ shown in the revision history. No, scrap that, I don’t wonder “whether”, I wonder “which”.
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