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primarily for gym listening not a great environment for the old hdd based classic ipods the 1st gen shuffle looks quite big and clunky now but back then it was a wonderful blend of simplicity and beauty in miniature an antidote to function creep and i loved it when i wore out the battery i learned to replace it when it finally died of sweat inhalation the slight drawback wearing the 1st gen shuffle on its halyard i bought the 1gb version and when i accidentally washed that with my gym kit i bought the improbably tiny 2nd generation model these days i use the shuffle for more than just gym listening i tend to just drag a few podcasts or downloaded radio shows onto it whenever i m going out as a result the battery is now nearing the end of its life and having fortunately glossed over the design own goal of the 3rd gen model i now have a brand new 4th generation replacement yep i could have learned to do another battery change but when the new shuffle is only 40 it hardly seems worth the effort slight sense of landfill guilt notwithstanding as ever it s a beautifully designed thing in almost equally beautiful packaging there s no mini dock with this version so the tiny box only has to house the usual apple earphones destination bin and a rather stingy usb cable about 10cm long unless you have a high power usb connection with easy reach that s going to be awkward my ipods usually plug into a hub that s glued onto the top of my mac g5 under the desk so i m going to be looking for a cable extension pretty soon that s a minor inconvenience what really bothers about the new shuffle is the operating system as with the previous generation the new shuffle can now store and play music from playlists just like you have on larger ipods and itunes itself with no screen you select playlists and individual tracks using the text to speech voiceover feature if you choose to disable voiceover the shuffle simply defaults to all songs bypassing any playlists fine as i ve never needed playlists on my previous shuffles that s how i ll be using the new one right well no when they say all songs what they actually mean is all songs except for podcasts as i mentioned above my shuffle usage mostly involves catching up with my backlog of bbc 6music downloads and podcasts i just switch on and listen until it s time to load some more on the 4th gen shuffle that means i have to enable voiceover in order to access the podcasts still not a major inconvenience but there s one more thing each podcast however many instalments there are lives in its own playlist and has to be selected individually via voiceover for me this is an inconvenience i like to just hit play and then go through everything in date order that means i get a bit of stuart maconie a bit of jarvis cocker some laurie taylor on radio 4 the guardian science podcast a swedish language podcast and then the same sort of thing from the following week this is no longer possible without hitting the voiceover button several times just leaving the shuffle to play whether in shuffle or play in order mode means that you ll hear either all your standard songs or every instalment of just one podcast that s great for people who need that facility but why not provide a way to switch it off bypass all the clever gubbins and just make the device play through each file in turn i ve tried a couple of hacks such as putting both standard mp3s and podcasts into a single playlist in itunes and then accessing that playlist via voiceover on the ipod but without success i ll just have to modify my listening habits slightly this is why i mentioned the pleasing lack of function creep on the original shuffle they ve now added one of the more advanced features from the full size ipods simply because they can and they ve made a balls up of implementing it in a less appropriate context i still love the shuffle concept and i m still in awe of apple s design skills but well i d actually like a bit less for my forty quid y know posted in apple technology tagged 4th gen apple arsebollocks ipod shuffle voiceover 3 comments first impressions google posted on 14 july 2011 by adrian it s no longer a surprise to see google doing their own version of just about every other internet big thing they ve probably seen what mark zuckerberg is worth these days hence the launch of something that on initial investigation looks pretty much like facebook with a different logo and more white space having thought i just couldn t be arsed with it my curiosity got the better of me easy stuff first you can make status updates which as on the most recent versions of facebook are part of a rolling timeline not like the permanent strapline of the old myspace those updates can include photos videos links or shared content from other people s status updates all very familiar as is the facility to create photo albums send private messages or chat in real time grouping your friends into circles is pretty much like using friend lists on facebook and sparks is just another way of liking stuff still it s not a complete clone with hangouts a video chat conference facility google stole a few days on facebook s skype based video chat service while huddle is a kind of group sms facility even the familiar stuff is subtly different from facebook so in time i wonder if people will be making a choice based on ease of use for me personally it works fine it s easy to use and there s nothing i particularly dislike about it but i just can t quite see why i d want to continue using it almost all of the people in my circles are already facebook friends and only a small minority of my facebook friends at that it s easy to forget that most people don t use social networking on a daily basis it s a bit like the situation with audio media in the 90s having been persuaded to ditch their vinyl and buy cds people were just never going to buy into minidisc or dcc i suspect the same will be true of the slightly less internet savvy people for whom it was a leap of faith to move from friends reunited to facebook still it s all very new no doubt google will be tweaking the service over the coming months and perhaps its purpose will gradually move away from facebook maybe i ll find a way of targetting its use for my own purposes for music perhaps whatever happens i suspect my curiosity will maintain the upper hand over my apathy posted in technology tagged facebook google social networking leave a comment although i m starting to be a little bit surprised posted on 6 july 2011 by adrian not however at the latest allegation that the notw hacked the voicemail of 7 7 victims what s really struck me since i wrote the last post is the slowly developing picture of life behind the scenes at news international it s a strange mix of sinister global media manipulation and utter comical incompetence on one hand we have rebekah brooks as ceo heading an investigation into her own company now where have we seen that approach to impartial investigation before but then they send out their secret surveillance team to spy on a metropolitan police officer suspecting that he might be having an affair with his own wife come to think of it though it s all part of the same process the huge power and assumed immunity from the law has led to complacency and laziness why even bother gathering news in the traditional way when you can just hack everyone s voicemail there s a fair bit of mission creep in there too hacking the voicemail of a premiership footballer s new girlfriend is a way of generating a salacious and exclusive story but hacking the voicemail of milly dowler you re only going to hear her friends and family saying the same things that they said in the official press conferences apparently there are worse revelations to come judging by how wanton and undiscerning their hacking tactics are starting to appear i can fully believe it posted in journalism politics tagged news of the world phone hacking rebekah brooks tabloids leave a comment what s most depressing is that i m barely surprised posted on 5 july 2011 by adrian after reading the latest chapter in the news of the world phone hacking scandal missing milly dowler s voicemail was hacked by news of the world guardian i jokingly remarked that at this rate it wouldn t be long before a tabloid admitted to kidnapping madeleine mccann purely in order to generate a decent story on a slow news day i m starting to think my exaggeration wasn t all that far off the mark phone hacking soham families contacted by police guardian the thing is some of us were already convinced that the news of the world is a nasty cynical little rag designed to exploit the most simplistic mob prejudices among its readership with the ultimate aim of filling rupert murdoch s pockets as quickly as possible but then we re just politically correct guardian reading university types who scorn the decent british working man aren t we even now murdoch isn t above using a bit of clever pr to push public opinion in that direction but i suspect it s gone too far for that the vital detail is not that arty farty guardian types are outraged but that news of the world readers themselves should be outraged they ve been sold a lie whipped up into a froth over the paedophiles on every street corner the mucky private sexual habits of posh people and of course the supposed institutional negligence of social services and all the while the newspaper that informed their world view was spying on a missing schoolgirl the sharon shoesmith example is particularly apt as an indication of news international hypocrisy as one blogger pointed out earlier rebekah brooks may not have been aware of the illegal practices carried out by her deputies but by her own standards that s no defence sharon shoesmith was not aware of how social workers were dealing with the baby p case but rebekah brooks still saw fit to wage a hysterical campaign calling for her dismissal there s more to it though the news international tabloids have been closely linked with british politics for years murdoch s approval was a major weapon in the political arsenals of both tony blair and david cameron thanks to the latter murdoch stands to gain an even tighter control of our media with his takeover of bskyb this isn t about a newspaper using dodgy journalistic practices it s about a cynical hypocritical attitude at the core of our media and politics sure you want to pay for that sky subscription posted in journalism politics tagged milly dowler news of the world phone hacking rebekah brooks rupert murdoch leave a comment the post posterous world posted on 15 may 2011 by adrian for the past year and a bit i ve had a couple of blogs on posterous mostly for stuff that was too long for twitter but too short to warrant full blog posts here one was for musical recommendations and discoveries the other for daft little photos i took in everyday life what s that you didn t even know they were there well you ve pretty much missed them now as i ll probably remove them soon i ve just got so annoyed with how slow and sludgy posterous is now and the way it adds so much redundant html to rich text input it s enough of a pain just writing the posts so i can t really expect anyone to sit there waiting for the pages to load purely in order to read my daydreamy drivel i know there s tumblr and others but y know what i can t be arsed these things start off as quirky useful little ideas and then the developers lose the thread i m not so conceited that i need a facebook like button on my posterous blog i m happy for it to stand alone in its own corner of the internet so i ll probably incorporate the most lasting posts into this blog and continue those posts here all old posterous imports will be marked with a posterous tag and i ll find some way of dividing this blog into big posts photo posts quick recommendations etc anyway as you were posted in admin tagged blog blogging posterous social media 2 comments thoughts on av posted on 4 may 2011 by adrian i ll be voting yes to av tomorrow that s not to say i particularly want av as our voting system but unfortunately we don t have the option of proportional representation it s alternative vote or first past the post and i don t see british politics or our general attitude to it improving while fptp remains in use it s pretty clear to me that our voting system is in need of reform and a no result simply suggests that we re happy with what we ve got thank you very much i don t care if av is flawed or a weak compromise it s reform and democratically driven reform is a good habit to get into nothing is forever either what s to stop us going back to fptp or even having a three way referendum with another option both campaigns have annoyed me for different reasons but with yes2av it s mostly been a case of failing to hammer the point home some of the explanations have been dull unimaginative and over complicated if it hadn t been for a couple of viral online graphics the yes campaign would have been dead in the water by now voting flowchart from paperback rioter let s av a beer it s no2av who have come out with some of the most brazen misinformation in pride of place was their suggestion that av is much too complex for the average voter yep putting two or more things in order of preference is just so difficult isn t it most of us have been doing it since primary school with our favourite sweets pop groups football teams girls guitars cars the no2av campaign has praised the simplicity of the fptp system and indeed all you have to do is choose your favourite candidate and stick an x by his her name well that s what some people do and you can do that with av if you choose to rank only one candidate but that discounts the huge number of people who vote tactically voting to hinder an unfavoured candidate not to help a favoured one i don t know about you but i ve gone through some pretty complex mental gymnastics on polling days past trying simultaneously to maximise the damage i can do to one candidate to assuage my feelings of guilt over not voting for my favourite no hoper candidate and to find a compromise candidate who at least has a vague hope of winning simple eh and that s one of the most important reasons for reform the weakness of fptp lies not in what you do but in what you don t do the simplest argument for electoral reform is provided by something that happens up and down the country in every general election here s what happened in lincoln in the 2010 election what always grabs my attention in statistics like those is that 62 9 of the people voted against the winning candidate let s forget the people who didn t vote at all even if their non vote was intended as a protest and even if we assume for the sake of argument that the four lowest candidates could conceivably be disaffected tories although realistically at least two of them are just thugs you ve still got 55 4 of that constituency s voters who d...