So, a couple weeks ago, I bought this flash drive. Well, partly it’s a 2-gig flash drive, but it’s also got an SD slot built into it. So, it’s expandable to whatever you want it to be, depending on how big an SD card you have for it. Works great for the camera. I have roboform2go installed on the flash drive part, as well as the portable apps suite (kind of addicted to the Sudoku) and I download my podcasts every morning onto a directory on a 1-gig sd card that’s in it. This has the added advantage of being able to pop the SD card out, and stick it in my little Lyra mp3 player, or in my Nuvi GPS in the car.

Can’t put it in my phone, though. For that, I have a 1-gig micro sd card in the phone, and another 2-gig sd card that’s in a little USB reader that’s about the size of my ring fingernail. The micro sd cards are so small, it’s ridiculous. You really couldn’t get any smaller, and have it actually be usable. Not with my big fat fingers, anyway. The USB drive is on a little lanyard that I have on my keys. I Was a little leery of it, because it’s just tiny thread, but it’s pretty tough shit. It’s amazing to me that I can have 2 gigs of storage on my keychain, and another three in my pocket. You can load an entire, bootable operating system on something you could hold under your tongue (if, for some reason you wanted to). All for next to no money. It’s amazing how cheap things have gotten.

I’m lately coveting an XBOX 360 Elite, although, it’s not exactly cheap. I’m trying to justify buying it, but I’m not quite there yet. I’ve gone so far as to put it, and Rainbow Six: Vegas in my Amazon shopping cart (‘cuz I got a $25 certificate, and they have free very slow shipping). So, it sounds pretty cool, and from what I hear, it’s got the better game selection. Which is how M$ always gets you into their clutches. You can tell me Apple is the just the bestest thing there is going, but I can get just about anything I need for free for Windows. Everything for free with Linux.

I had Sedition Radio running on Linux until the old junk hardware crapped out on me. When I built a new box for it, I put Windows on it, and ShoutCast, though not all that hard on Linux, is just way, way easier on Windows. The Linux transcoder is kinda fussy about everything being the same bitrate, whereas in Windows, it doesn’t care; you can mix and match all you want.

Oh, wait. I started out talking about my USB/SD drive. Like I said, it’s pretty cool, except for a couple of things. First (and, I don’t really give much of a shit about this), it had a nice shiny black finish when I bought it. But, being in my pocket, it’s all fucked up and scratched now. Minor blems don’t affect performance, as they say. But, it came with a lanyard, just like the other one. Really tiny. And that’s the second problem: the goddamn thing didn’t come preattached, and I’m supposed to tie it on. And, it’s designed to hold the end cap on w/o losing it, so you have to thread it through the cap, and then though this little tiny hole on the drive. And then tie it.

What’re they fucking kiddin’ me? I’m lucky if I can tie my shoes (that’s why I try never to untie them). So, I’ve given myself a goddamn headache trying to tie this thing on, ‘cuz it’d be nice to have it; the cap is designed to only fit on one way, so having the lanyard would not only keep me from losing the cap, but would make it easier to stick back on again. But it aint worth the aggravation.

Well, anyway, have a good hump day.