So I’m a bit of a kit whore - I do love a new shiny. I hoard things too. I’ve got all this old stuff I should probably throw/give away… It’s been a while since I’ve been in the market for new toys, and I managed to rationalise a new machine - I’m about to move overseas for 6 weeks, and I don’t want to live on the work machine. I want something quick, light, with long battery and that I can take on excursions or just for evening IRC and twitter. …

So last year, I did a video blog (vlog, I believe the kids call them) about Spotify. This year, I’m on a new service, and figured I’d share my thoughts for continuity. Plus, I get to go to bed earlier by starting earlier. (Note: I started this and it took 3 days to write. Turns out I had to do some thinking…) Here’s the old one, just FYI. What’s all this noise about? …

Enthusiasm for hobbies waxes and wanes over time. I mean - some days, I’m real keen to go curling, some days I can’t be arsed. Some days, I blog, most days I don’t. The things that ceaselessly continue to fascinate me, however, are the inner workings of computers and radios. Of course - I work in telecomms, so radios and networks kinda keep themselves on my periphery at all times and I get to have fascinating discussions about them, like,all the time. …

So, I, Um, still have this blog thing kicking around. Shiny. I should use it more. So here I go. I did this thing today, where I installed Ubuntu on my dear Nexus 7. Why? Because reasons, okay!? A couple of reasons, really - I like experimenting. Experimenting with expensive toys is great fun. Warranties are overrated. I like doing things I shouldn’t do, according to normal conventions of technology use. …

It’s late, invariably I’m awake doing nerd things… Tonight, it’s getting worked up over the fact that I can’t submit to like.fm (my new favourite replacement for last.fm) from Audacious, my media player of choice on this wee machine. First port of call, checkout the code on git… After poking around, it turns out that I can transform the address that the program ‘scrobbles’ to in one line in the code (src/scrobbler/settings. …