Archive for March 23rd, 2004

The mind boggles

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004

“Rumsfeld was saying, we need to bomb Iraq, and we were all saying no, no, al Queda is in Afganistan, we need to bomb Afganistan. And Rumsfeld said there aren’t any good targets in Afganistan, and there are lots of good targets in Iraq”
- Richard Clark on the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

And some ever better news about the iPod

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004

I’m sure you’re all absolutely fascinated by this, but it appears that the problem is definitely fixed, and, more importantly, I’ve probably got a fresh battery in the new iPod. After nearly 9.5 hours of use (10 hours minus the time it was off for lunch time), I turned it off for 20 minutes, then turned it back on again and it came alive! Woo hoo!

And hopefull that will be the last iPod update I’ll have to post for a while.

Finally some tentatively good news about my iPod

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004

In our second last installment, I discovered that my new iPod has a problem that if you play it on battery for 3-4 hours and then pause it long enough for it to turn itself off, it wouldn’t come back on without a full hard reset/reboot. Which is a drag because you lose your place in the playlist you were listening to.

That problem might actually be fixed!
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