Skip to main content

rip

Feeling a little sad. No. Scratch that. A lot sad. My iPod Shuffle just died.

It's a first gen Shuffle so it looks like a stick of gum rather than a silly clip-on. I bought it right after launch and has served me well for the past 3 or so years. I guess it was time. The headphone socket had been having problems recently with the audio dying out on one side of the 'phones, and then switching to the other for no reason at all.

But even then I loved using it as a general-use thumbdrive. When not using it as a music device, just plug it in and it becomes a spare backup drive. Very useful, unlike the 2nd gen clip-on Shuffle, which you have to plug into a dock before you can connect it to a computer.

I'll miss you 1st gen iPod Shuffle! *sniff*

On the upside! The new shuffle doesn't cost more than RM200 while I bought my old 1GB Shuffle for RM500. (It was right before CNY and my old company had recently given out a bonus). These days you could get a Nano with 8 times the memory AND a screen with that kind of money.
Labels:

Comments

  1. marineko23/9/08 10:33 pm

    my condolences.
    my iPod mini (before nano and shuffle) died awhile back.
    i still haven't got the heart to replace my Doris.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Ted Mahsun24/9/08 5:21 am

    Ooh! You name your mini Doris! I gave a name to my shuffle when I first bought it but it's since been lost. (The name that is.) It never stuck I guess. I just ended up calling it "Shuffle". Ah well.

    It reminds me of a friend who once had a computer called Betsy. :D

    ReplyDelete
  3. Chet24/9/08 8:57 am

    Over at the NaNo Technology forum at the NaNoWriMo website, there's actually a discussion thread of what participants call their writing machines.

    Mine were easy to name - they already had names! The AlphaSmart Dana is Dana, and the AlphaSmart Neo is Neo.

    I did name my Powerbook, which I called PB for short, and it became Phoebe.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Ted Mahsun24/9/08 9:06 am

    Haha! I expected no less!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Anonymous25/9/08 12:42 pm

    Hehe, just bought myself a 2nd Gen iPod Shuffle yesterday. It's second hand but just like new because the past owner is too lazy to install iTunes hence never use it. He didn't know that there's a iPod plugin for Windows Media Player. Hehe

    (iTunes on Windows sucks, WMP is way more stable)

    ReplyDelete
  6. Ted Mahsun25/9/08 1:52 pm

    I didn't know there was an iPod plugin for WMP either!

    I wouldn't use WMP if I was on Windows though. I prefer WinAmp and Media Player Classic.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

I'm going to Clarion West!

So yeah! I'm going to Clarion West this year! If you didn't know, Clarion West is a really awesome science fiction and fantasy writing workshop that runs for six weeks in summer every year at Seattle and is usually taught by a faculty of award-winning authors and editors. Many students who attend this workshop also go on to have illustrious writing careers of their own too. I've been meaning to attend this workshop (or its sister workshop, Clarion UCSD, which is the original Clarion workshop but runs in San Diego around the same time) for years now but never had the courage to apply. Many reasons as to why: didn't think I'd have money for the most part, didn't think I was good enough, didn't think I could leave work long enough, didn't think I could leave family behind, etc. But something sparked inside of me late last year. I felt I should at least give it a go this time round. So I did. They requested a sample of my best work and an applicatio...
Post a Comment
Read more

REVIEW: Confessions of an Old Boy by Kam Raslan

Kam Raslan's right. In the preface for his new book, Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato' Hamid Adventures he writes that we've known Dato' Hamid all our lives. Seeing as my own dad is an old boy of MCKK, the people I get to meet when he drags me to an Old Boy function and the people he tells me of, reflect the characters found in Kam's book. It really does feel like I've known Dato' Hamid all my life. Dato' Hamid is a civil servant of the Tunku Abdul Rahman generation. He is the sort of person you rarely see nowadays, a fine example of the anachronistic Malay. This generation, groomed in the ways of the colonial British would be out of place not just in 21st century Malaysia, but in Britain too. And yet, Dato' Hamid, in all his snobbishness and patronising ways, is essentially a Malaysian. Without people like him, our country would probably never exist at all. At least not like we know it now. I'm glad that Kam Raslan decided to capture this ...
5 comments
Read more

Lesson: Commemorative Covers are Lame.

Well, I got the first day cover that commemorates the 35th anniversary of the establishment diplomatic relations between China and Malaysia that I mentioned a couple of posts ago. Except that it's not a first day cover, it's a commemorative cover, which is a slightly different beast. I guess I should read the news article properly next time! The difference between the two is that first day covers are specially-designed envelopes stuck on with specially-designed stamps, and marked with a specially-designed postmark. A commemorative cover is a specially-designed envelope... and that's it. All in all, it's an unremarkable affair, especially if you're used to well-designed first day covers (not that Malaysian first day covers are well-designed... but I digress). Oh sure, a commemorative cover has a stamp printed right on to it but that's just like an overglorified aerogramme. Lame. On the whole, what a disappointment. I haven't been collecting first day cover...
5 comments
Read more