And who thought audio books on CD were an improvement? In the old days, you had a cassette and when you stopped listening, the tape would happily sit there waiting for you to return. If you wanted to listen to music you wouldn't be conflicted by having to remember and find your place at a later date.

I usually listen to an audio book as a set of ~5 minute tracks. For long books this can mean over 200 tracks. I took my CD out of my car player last night and then realised I had to court RSI by pressing 'next' 207 times to reach my place. Then listen to the three minutes of that five minute section that I'd already heard.

The solution? More technology! I already have an Otis player,which will remember where I am and is dedicated solely to my audio book listening pleasure. This would allow me to listen to my stuff the way I want to. So I purchased a little radio transmitter that plugs into the headphone socket of the player and I can pick up on my car radio. Of course this is another set of batteries and as it's such a weak signal I have to have the volume of the Otis at maximum and my car radio much higher than I would normally.

The whole system is on trial. We'll see how it goes.

Oh and back to photography, as my digital camera only cam with an 8mb card, I purchased a 128mb one. I now have the capacity for 200 shots but it takes the camera even longer to write and read the card, and it seems to have affected the battery life too. Nothin's simple, I tell ya.

And on that note, digital cameras make it easy to discard crap shots, but you never know what it is about a picture that will be interesting in the future. I have loads of not-so-interesting-at-the-time photos that are very interesting five years later, as they remind you of your stupid hair and what colour the kitchen walls were in the old house and my god! I'd forgotten about that jumper and things like that. Of course that way you keep everything. And I'm against that too.

Paddy has a Best of Power Rangers video. And he loves it (I am the Dark Spectre -- fear me). I hadn't realised how blatant the toy promotion was on those shows -- it's incredible. And the production values are just fabulous. However, he's taken to it all...

Stay tuned for yet more technology news. Can this get any better? Oh we hope so.