Alex Mace's Blog » iPod http://blog.alexmace.co.uk Life & Web Development Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:34:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Bargain of the Week http://blog.alexmace.co.uk/2008/06/02/bargain-of-the-week/ http://blog.alexmace.co.uk/2008/06/02/bargain-of-the-week/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:45:41 +0000 Alex http://www.whythehell.co.uk/?p=305 One of the problems with my current car (a 1992, 150k mile Mercedes 190E) is that the radio won’t pick up FM, which renders all the various FM transmitters I have for iPods useless. I’ve been looking for a cassette adapter for a little while and on Saturday I saw one in Tesco for £6.97. Considering Maplin in Worcester didn’t seem to sell them and PC World sell them for a ludicrous £14.99, the Tesco price seemed like a great deal.

However, I’ve just done a quick search on Google Product Search (sidenote: which is a terrible name compared to its previous name, Froogle) and I apparently could have got one for 79p. Damn.

]]> http://blog.alexmace.co.uk/2008/06/02/bargain-of-the-week/feed/ 5 Podcasts http://blog.alexmace.co.uk/2007/03/18/podcasts/ http://blog.alexmace.co.uk/2007/03/18/podcasts/#comments Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:55:05 +0000 Alex http://www.whythehell.co.uk/?p=292 Autosport has a new podcast, which I downloaded last night to listen to on my way to my kart race yesterday morning. I haven’t really been keeping up with my podcasts of late, so I put them on for the journey to and from Whilton Mill. It certainly helped the journey go quickly on the way there and kept me awake on the drive back. I think I’m going to start listening to them more while I’m in the car because it seems like the perfect environment for them and I rarely seem to be able to listen to them any other time. Radio and by extension podcasts seem to work best when you’re doing something that leaves a lot of your brain free for something else, like driving. Listening in work is a bit of a problem because it’s harder to concentrate on the stuff I’m actually paid to do and listen to what someone is saying. Listening at home is hard because I’ve usually got so many jobs to do it’s difficult to sort out the time to do something were I can actually pay attention to the podcast as it plays.

Anyway, the current list of podcasts on my (now 3 year old) iPod are as follows:

  • Fighting Talk
  • The Now Show
  • Autosport
  • Mark Kermode’s Film Reviews
  • Gareth Jones on Speed

Those seem to suit my tastes, on demand, much better than any radio station could.

The karting itself didn’t go great. I’m not sure where we finished but it wasn’t anywhere worth mentioning. I did qualifying and was 7th when I came in, but then the sun came out and we were pushed down to 19th, which was a bit disappointing. Still, next race in two weeks so a chance to put it right will come soon.

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