well duh...

So the New York Times is reporting that iPod sales are flattening out. This is the inevitable byproduct of EVERYONE already owning your product. Including, sadly, President Bush. That's like finding out that in the white house bathroom there's an electric toothbrush. Weird.

Globally, though, I think that Apple could be better positioned - the iPod just took off in the last 6 months here in England, and while that's great news for Apple, not much else has been happening on that front. If they could get more people using apple computers here, that would be ideal. And throughout Europe, the iPod really hasn't caught on much.

So there's a better way to listen to the recording that Queen's Choir made on Wednesday. My friend Robin has put the full show up on the web, divided into convenient clips and encoded in MP3 format. Unfortunately, the entire website is in German, so just bear with me while I give you the particulars:

First, go to this website: http://service.gmx.net/mc/l2Nb2UX0CWrhKndTrJ6TRJ1Ly2X0SV. Type the password q1341 in the box labelled "Zugangscode" and click "weiter". This will open a new page when you hit the button "GMX MediaCenter Starten". A page will open on which you will see the files. Tick the boxes of the files you want to download (I recommend, oh, all of them), and then click on the "Datei" menu (top left) and select "Download". If the computer prompts you to save or open the file, click save. It will download as a ZIP file, which should then automatically unZIP as a folder on your desktop (mac) or downloads file (windows). Import said files to your media player of choice and listen in.

Finally, some muppet stole my bike yesterday. It was locked to a fence, which means that someone actually had to cut through the cable in broad daylight, as I know it occurred sometime between 9:30 AM and 4:30 PM. I'm really ticked off. But other than that, it was a good day. And now that I've slowly recovered back onto UK time, I'm getting to be more productive with my work.