Shiny morning

[juliet]

Gorgeous morning - was rather irritated that for logistical reasons to do with parent-visiting tonight I had to take the tube in so didn't get to cycle. The view out of my window today is superb - the Eye in particular is catching the sun on all its little cars & sparkling rather in the manner of a *really big* diamond ring. Mornings like this I am particularly fond of London; though bizarrely I was also feeling pretty fond of it yesterday whilst cycling home in the rain. It was a good run, though, despite the rain - no wind, & just the right temperature for pleasant cycling.

'Particularly fond of' doesn't cut it, to be fair. I adore London, & always have. I grew up here (albeit out in the suburbs), & I always knew during my 5 years in Oxford that I'd be coming back. It's beautiful even when it's grey and rainy, and more so when the sun shines; it's covered in parks, and sudden glorious bits of architecture that you come across unexpectedly; and even the grotty bits have interest once you start paying attention. It's busy, and interesting, and even though I'd like to try living elsewhere (overseas for a bit), I can't imagine ever wanting my *home* to be anywhere else. Wonderful city.

In other news, I have acquired an SD card for my Treo so that it can be an MP3 player. Unfortunately, it seems that putting stuff onto a 512MB card via the hotsync takes *much longer* than putting stuff onto a 32MB card (either that or it's something to do with the card itself, I suppose). As in, 8 hrs for 22 songs. Halfway through last night I cracked & bought an SD reader for the Mac (only 16quid, mind) to enable me to do this faster. I am a Bad Juliet & must put the credit card away for the rest of the month now.

Which reminds me: does anyone have the Levellers' cover of 'Devil Went Down To Georgia' on MP3?

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[katstevens.livejournal.com]

My cycle along the canal was indeed lovely this morning (and not just because I saw a KITAN). It's not often I wake up, look out of the window and think "Yess! I don't have to get the tube today!"

[juliet]

Yeah - I was really quite narked to be on the tube (unavoidable: can't take bike on train from Victoria to get to parents' house during rush hour; can't cycle home tomorrow because have to get plane to Amsterdam for work; really not keen on leaving bike at work unattended until Monday). I shall just have to hope that we get more similarly splendid autumn days...

[j4.livejournal.com]

does anyone have the Levellers' cover of 'Devil Went Down To Georgia' on MP3?

Not exactly, but my dad has it on CD, so I can ask him to rip it... (actually he might have already ripped it to listen to at work, so will ask him.)

[juliet]

Cheers!

I used to have it on a tape somewhere, but can't find it any more. I have the Charlie Daniels Band version, but don't like it as much (though I *do* like their version, with Johnny Cash, of 'The Devil Came Back to Georgia').

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I just came on to the comments page to ask what the Johnny Cash sequel song was - thank you!

[j4.livejournal.com]

I've got it on a tape -- Levellers at Glastonbury 92, taped off the radio ... feel the sound quality! :) It's good to listen to in the car though.

Anyway my dad's going to rip the track from 'See nothing, hear nothing, do something' tonight & email it to me, & I will fwd it to you. Yay technology.

[juliet]

Hurrah for technology!

It may be easier if you put it in your the.earth.li home directory & make it world-readable, then I can grab it from there? But if you prefer to email it then that's fine (I dunno, I have a vague feeling that it's somehow 'better' for it to be grabbed from disk than sent through the email servers, but this may be a mental holdover from when sending/receiving a file the size of an MP3 would have overrun my inbox. This is no longer the case, so it probably doesn't actually *matter*, so go with whichever is less hassle).

Thank you lots! [bounce]

[j4.livejournal.com]

Righto, it's in my the home directory, called TheDevilWentDownToGeorgia.mp3, so grab away.

[juliet]

Thank you! [bounces some more]

Now got & duly installed on shinyTreocard. Yell if you want the Johnny Cash/Charlie Daniels Band followup (which is quite fun).

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Treo hotsync is slow at transferring data, it only runs at mundane serial port speeds. Note that on the Treo end, in the Hotsync application, you can change the serial speed. I think the default is a rather pathethic 19200bps, you ought to be able to run it at the maximum 115200bps (IIRR). That's still not nearly USB speeds, though.

[juliet]

Cheers - it was running at 56000 or thereabouts, so have upped it to the maximum.

[hatter.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, SD is just plain slow, too, so even with the reader, it'll still take an age to transfer bigger stuff - I've discovered this recently, transfering 15mb images from my camera - buy a reader, still god-awful slow. You can get faster SD for not incredibly more money - look for 'sandisk ultra ii' and similar. Does 10MB/sec rather than 2, but bizarrely only seems to be available up to 512MB capacity.


the hatter

[juliet]

Well, it transferred around 200MB in about 7 minutes, which is plenty fast enough for my purposes (am happy to construct playlist in iTunes on the Mac then drop it onto the SD card & leave it copying.

[painted-bird.livejournal.com]

Yes, that old cliché about being bored of life if you're bored of London is certainly true... I could never be bored here, not really, and that's why I too hope to consider it my home for as long as possible...

[peshwengi.livejournal.com]

I was glad I could cycle to work this morning, when I looked out of the window. I went to the garden and found a surprise harvest of ripe tomatoes waiting for me too! But then when I was half way to work the wind hit me and threatened to push me back home again. Still, if it doesn't change then I'll have a nice tailwind on the way home.

The view out of my window today is superb

Your post inspired me to open the blinds on my window, I now have a splendid view of the "gherkin" and Tower 42 glistening in the sun. Thanks! They are a few kilometres west of me though, and out of the other window I can see Canary Wharf, in silhouette at the moment. In the afternoon, Canary Wharf will be all golden in the setting sun, it can be beautiful at times. However, they can also be a warning - if I can't see any of those buildings from here, it usually means that it's raining too hard to cycle home!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Canary Wharf is top. It peeps over the houses at the end of my street in Mile End. Always makes me feel better somehow when I see it walking home!

[peshwengi.livejournal.com]

I can't see the Central London buildings at the moment! I hope this clears up... can barely see Canary wharf too. I'm in Mile End too (I work at Queen Mary uni)

[the23.livejournal.com]

i could have sworn that london was one of the most ridiculously congested and expensive cities in the world and crime ridden to boot. nightlife apart, the best thing about london is the tube and that's what everyone in london spends half of their life moaning about. good place for a weekender though. as far as parks are concerned portland pisses all over everywhere else i've been from a great height, but even cleveland is on par with london. i'll take any big city except birmingham, cleveland and philadelphia over london.