Conference
Sep. 28th, 2004 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julietCurrently sat in a slightly chilly (well, I am wearing a scarf, but then I have low tolerance for cold) room in RAL being told about how the telescope I'm working on is progressing. There are many words which I understand only vaguely. Happily, they are providing wireless, so I have net access as & when. [strokes the lovely shiny Powerbook]
Hotel is also v nice - the room I'm in is about the same size as the entire upper floor of our house, yet bizarrely is equipped with two 2'6" single beds (I can understand the single-bed-ness, since it's a conference centre & one might reasonably expect people to be sharing rooms with folk they wouldn't want to share a bed with. It's the 2'6" bit that baffles me. Thankfully I didn't actually fall out last night.). It also has free net access, hurrah. So that's my evenings sorted (in fact this is a lie: tonight I intend to be antisocial & go to my room & play on the internet & knit & go to bed early; tomorrow night there is a Relaxing Social Event instead).
Managed to get my Treo playing MP3s yesterday (by virtue of buying a headphone adaptor for it). Unfortunately, I discovered that quite a lot of the stuff I have ripped to the Mac I inadvertently ripped in AAC format rather than MP3, so have to convert any of this that I wish to put on the Treo. Currently, however, I can only get 8 or 9 songs at a time on the Treo (have only a 32meg SD card), so this isn't too much of a chore. I also found out that you can get 256meg SD cards from Dabs for a mere 20quid, which is an attractive thought which I must RESIST. I shall wait & find out how much I actually end up using the MP3 player before I start splashing out on increased storage.
Hotel is also v nice - the room I'm in is about the same size as the entire upper floor of our house, yet bizarrely is equipped with two 2'6" single beds (I can understand the single-bed-ness, since it's a conference centre & one might reasonably expect people to be sharing rooms with folk they wouldn't want to share a bed with. It's the 2'6" bit that baffles me. Thankfully I didn't actually fall out last night.). It also has free net access, hurrah. So that's my evenings sorted (in fact this is a lie: tonight I intend to be antisocial & go to my room & play on the internet & knit & go to bed early; tomorrow night there is a Relaxing Social Event instead).
Managed to get my Treo playing MP3s yesterday (by virtue of buying a headphone adaptor for it). Unfortunately, I discovered that quite a lot of the stuff I have ripped to the Mac I inadvertently ripped in AAC format rather than MP3, so have to convert any of this that I wish to put on the Treo. Currently, however, I can only get 8 or 9 songs at a time on the Treo (have only a 32meg SD card), so this isn't too much of a chore. I also found out that you can get 256meg SD cards from Dabs for a mere 20quid, which is an attractive thought which I must RESIST. I shall wait & find out how much I actually end up using the MP3 player before I start splashing out on increased storage.
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Date: 2004-09-28 09:06 am (UTC)(OK, it won't actually stop people, but it makes cuddling up afterwards more of a challenge ...)
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Date: 2004-09-28 11:25 am (UTC)It amuses me that I'm thinking of getting a digital camera which comes with a 16MB card... that's enough for about 4 1/2 pictures!
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Date: 2004-09-28 04:08 pm (UTC)Digital cameras basically all seem to come with sod-all memory - extra storage is just an automatic extra cost.