Music

Pissed from yesterday and having spent most of today troublingshooting why I cannot move music from Linux to my MP3 player I finally gave up (I think there is somekind of bug in the way KDE handles the safe removal of USB devices which just messes everything up), looked at the net for some alternatives to a new MP3 player. Decided anyway to go to Verkkokauppa to check out their sortiment. After having waited for a fair time at the queue to customer service I was presented with the options but none of them would support Linux. So there you are. So in order to lift my spirits with something (as Snusnu had to cancel our coffee meeting) I went to hunt for the next thing I've been wanting for quite some time, a stereo. Went from Ruoholahti with the metro to Kamppi and from Kamppi to the Central Railway Station (as Anttila didn't really have any stereos at all) and from there to City Tunnel Anttila. Finally. I looked at some models and saw one that was reduced by 50% and would even play MP3 cd's. Hooray! So I bought the one. Except when I was going to pay for it the price was suddenly double from what they said it would be. After some coughing and some running by cashier I got my stereo with a 50% discount (actually the discount had ended on the 15th but someone had left the discount notice next to the stereo). So now I have a stereo and I've been listening to Sävelradio all day and evening.

Veltsu came online after having been offline for a few days which was nice to talk to him, even though he is busy. Asked him if he would like to come to Helsinki instead of me going now to Oulu as he is uncertain as to when he'll be getting his own appartment but we'll see. I know he is not that keen on coming to Helsinki but that is something that is ok.

Todays link is not related to wikipedia but to slashdot that actually had a piece of news that is directly related to my MP3 problem. The player doesn't require any drivers to work with Linux and the 8GB capacity is more than enough.