Two words: Don’t bother.
If you’ve got a cassette deck in your car, get a cassette adpater instead.
If you don’t, then hand the iPod to a passenger (young children work best for this), give them the ear buds, and get them to sing along, loudly.
Either way it’ll work better and sound better than an iTrip. Complete waste of money.
I guess I should mention that I probably won’t have any more music up this week.
Next week is a bit iffy too, as I’ll have my parents visiting – maybe something short . . . and since I’ll be in Queensland for the next week, again probably only something short, if anything at all (and there won’t be any guitar or bass)
So I guess that’s all untill the 10th of January.
May you have an excellent Christmas and a wonderful New Year!.
In the mean time – incase you missed them, here’s all the ones so far:
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Or you can look at the “Tuesday Challenge” category on the right.
I’ve had my Christmas, dunno about the rest of you lot…
I finally managed to talk myself into buying an iPod. I figured that the trip to Europe is going to involve long plane flights, and also that I was going to have to spend a couple of hundred on memory cards for my camera.
So I bought myself a 60GB video iPod – white, of course – plus the camera connecter, AV cables, iTrip and power supply (Why do I have to pay extra for a plug-in-to-the-wall power supply?)
Unfortunately, despite claiming to work with “All iPods with a doc connector”, the iTrip (an FM transmitter, mostly used to let your car radio tune in to the iPod rather than fiddling with cassette adapters and stuff) doesn’t actually use the doc connector, and doesn’t work with my iPod, so I guess I’ll be returning that tomorrow.
There is a version out that does in fact use the doc connector, so I’ll have to see if I can find one – or maybe the RoadTrip, which combines iTrip with a car charger and a car doc. (Not sure about that one, as the cigarette lighter in my car is deeply recessed, and it might not actually fit).
Aaaanyway – I haven’t had much time with it yet – fiddled with the menus and generally admired it, and Caitlin found the games of course.
I did copy all my photos on to it – and the screen is absolutely wonderful for viewing them on – I wasn’t sure how good it’d be. The slideshow on a TV with the AV cables isn’t bad either.
Now I have the long process of getting music on to it. I currently have 17 DVDs full of FLAC encoded files with all the contents of my CD collection. I have them converted to ogg vorbis for playback on my laptop, but that’s no good for the iPod, so now I’ve got to go and re-encode them as mp3. It’d be OK if I’d had the disk space to put them all on hard drive to start with, because then I could just leave a process running over night, but I guess switching 17 DVDs is still better than switching a couple of hundred CDs.
To Ms Traci Harding, and whoever edited Masters of Reality:
Apostrophes are ONLY ever used for possesion or contractions.
They are _not_ used for plurals, not ever. Not even a little bit….
For some bizarre reason every pluralized instance of a couple of words in that book had a bloody apostrophe in it – God’s, Australian’s. ARGHHH!!
The first time bugged me enough I had to put the book down for a bit – but one mistake can slip through…the second one had me ready to throw it across the room, and after that I just became numb to them…
How the hell did that get to publication, and then through multiple re-prints with that many hideous errors in it????
The apostrophes weren’t the only problems either….
At one point, the earth was being powered by a bean from a fusion power plant in space.
Nothing like fusion powered bean to start your day!
Other than that – this one starts to get even more bizarre than the previous ones, and much more sci-fi, so much less interesting to me…
However Traci’s writing style is very easy to live with, so I keep reading.
Guess who’s going on the incentive trip to Prague and Berlin in Feburary!!!!
Wheee!!!!!
bloody hell. I’m guessing that Ms Harding had a long night in which she got herself well and truly stoned off her nut in front of her TV, fell in to a trance in front of a documentary about welsh kings, followed by a James Bond movie, an episode of Star Trek, Crocodile Dundee, Star Wars, Karate Kid, and Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey.
When she woke up in the morning, she discovered she’d accidentally written a trillogy.
Though it smelt rather strongly of cheese….
Do journalists have horrible reading comprehension as a requirement for the job? Or do they really deliberately try to lie to us with headlines?
For example:
NIGHTWISH SEEKING NEW SOUND WITH TURUNEN REPLACEMENT
Which contains the following, right at the end:
“We will be open to a slightly new sound.”
That’s the only mention of a “New Sound” in the entire article. (Though “entire” is probably too strong a word to use for a 5 line “article”)
I don’t know how anyone could misconstrue being “open to a slightly new sound” as actively seeking one.
Tonight’s one proves once again that I have no sense of time. I came up with something on guitar, but then as happens so often with me – when I tried to record it, I couldn’t figure out what time it was in..
In the end it turned out to be a 7 bar phrase, with 3 bars of 3/4, 1 bar of 2/4 and another 3 bars of 3/4.
Of course.
Apart from that, this one sees me experiment with the guitar a little – I have tried to get as good an acoustic sound as possible, without an acoustic. I’ve done that by recording both the line out from the guitar, as well as sticking a microphone in front of it while I play. That gives me both the nice full sound, plus the struming sound that I always miss when I just record the guitar via the line out.
As a result, I think I’ve got a pretty passable semi-acoustic guitar sound.
I’m unhappy with the singing as always, but that’s to be expected.
I do rather like the intro – it puts me in mind rather strongly of Fleetwood Mac. Must be the electric piano.
I also do manage a relatively slow and measured guitar solo at the end. Still need to work on that though…