i’ve been generally very happy with my ipod.

my confidence in its ability to satisfy my (very reasonable) expectations grew day by day that i’ve come to casually ignore the whole “remove this device” or “drag it to trash” thing and just plug it out whenever i felt appropriate. ha- big mistake.

a few days ago i lost everything i had on my ipod. it was such a refreshing sensation when i walked outside, and press the menu button and tada- an empty ipod, back to its factory condition. i was lost for words. it was unexpected in every way.

although it was a fault of my own, i started to blame the technology: “well, you’ve never done this before so why did you decide to start being silly now? this is just ridiculous!”

so now i’m a little short on the number of albums on my ipod. i’ve been too busy to go through my computers - desktop and laptop - and transfer tracks scattered here and there. right now i have:

• chocolates & cigarettes EP - angus & julia stone
• dummy - portishead
• french for beginners podcast
• high times singles 1992-2006 - jamiroquai
• let’s get out of this country - camera obscura
• on the rocks! - ego wrappin’
• philosopher’s zone podcast

i’ve been listening to the same things over and over, and as a result i’m getting addicted to certain tracks like lloyd, i’m ready to be heartbroken; well come to think of it, all camera obscura’s songs are highly addictive.

anyway, i wished “repeatedly” ipods had wireless data transfer capabilities. no need to plug things in and out. no need to lose all your songs and find yourself outside songless when you could really do with some. i wonder if there are any plans to implement this.

soon there will be wireless electricity.

US researchers have outlined a relatively simple system that could deliver power to devices such as laptop computers or MP3 players without wires.
original story here

when this becomes reality for everyday life, it’s going to be absolutely crazy in a country like korea, especially with wireless broandband technologies like WiBro. it would be really strange (and dangerous) to walk outside and someone just suck all available (public and private) information about me out of me - or my wireless device, more like. the sensation that i had with my empty ipod would be nothing compared to how i would feel then.

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