I can kind of understand why MacBooks are so popular. They are nicely designed and run as smooth as something that’s really smooth – I just woke up, give me a break.

The one thing I don’t get is why is there a need to have a glowing light on the side of it while it’s in standby. Surely there is a better way to let me know the thing isn’t off. To be honest I won’t mind but a quick Google reveals that I can’t disable it. So thanks to Apple I have to have a giant pulsating light next to me when I sleep.

What?!

Another short one today. Decided I’ll compile some of my Last.FM Scrobbling stats into monthly charts. These are all charts from the last three months as Last.FM doesn’t let you do monthly charts. Also this way they’ll be more reflective of general listening rather than what album came out in what month.

Judging by the results, I think I might have a problem.

By Artist…

1. Ugly Duckling (920)
2. Madvillain (271)
3. Field Music (223)
4. Sufjan Stevens (163)
5. Jurassic 5 (159)
6. Gang Starr (144)
7. Phantogram (139)
8. Abdominal (124)
9. Module (101)
10. Ok Go (99)

By Album…

1. Ugly Duckling Bang For The Buck (498)
2. Ugly Duckling Taste The Secret (442)
3. Jurassic 5 Quality Control (281)
4. Ugly Duckling Audacity (278)
5. Cut Chemist The Audience’s Listening (243)
6. Phantogram – Eyelid Movies (205)
7. Jay-Z – Blueprint 3 (187)
8. Madvillain – Madvillain (168)
9. Field Music – Measure (167)
10. Module – Shatte (160)

Finally By Track…

1. Ugly Duckling – MeatShake (52)
2. Ugly Duckling – Energy Drink (41)
3. Ugly Duckling – Dumb It Down (37)
4. Ugly Duckling – Abigail Silk (34)
5. Madvillain – Accordion (33)
6. Ugly Duckling – I Won’t Let It Die (30)
7. Ugly Duckling – Audacity (Parts One And Two) (29)
8. Ugly Duckling – Turn It Up (26)
9. Ugly Duckling – The Breakdown (26)
10. Supergrass – Diamond Hoo Ha Man (24)

After yesterday’s post, I engaged in the hefty task of syncing my iPod because for some reason deleting tracks takes just as long as it does it upload new ones. I don’t have anything thought provoking on the matter, just a screenshot of iPod space. I’ve also purchased 3 more albums on CD.

Just about 197 left to go then…

I’d make a decent sized post about it but I’m really tired. Tired to the point of everything appearing really close up, like my eyes have suddenly activated a zoom function or something. Does anyone get that when they get tired or should I get them checked?

I recently posed the idea that I should own all my music. The older I’ve gotten – which isn’t that much by the way – the more I’ve lacked a legitimate reason for downloading music. Saying ‘everybody does it’ just doesn’t cut it anymore.

For those new to the blog or too lazy to read the old entry, I pondered whether I should just adopt CDs as my format of choice, over the expensively lush vinyl. Tonight, however, I compiled a list of over 200 albums that were in my library – many of which have since been deleted because I haven’t listened to them in over four years – and realised that owning everything on vinyl wasn’t a realistic option. Put it down to digital only releases and ridiculous over-inflation, but my dreams of wall to wall black plastic discs won’t be viable.

With that said a majority of these albums were available on vinyl for around a tenner so I’m hoping to get a bunch of them come 2011. Actually I’m going to set an goal of owning all my music by the end of the year. I’ll happily predict that either two of the following things will happen as a result of this…

1. I’ll be bankrupt and have no room to physically move
2. My iPod will be considerably emptier

I’m going to regret this personal challenge, aren’t I?

Today’s announcement from Apple was a disappointing one, mainly because after all the hype, I found out that the device isn’t really aimed at me.

It was always going to be an uphill battle. Personally I have a MacBook and an iPod Touch, so I questioned why would I want something in-between. My MacBook is as portable and as powerful as I’ll need, for a while, so the iPad can’t help me there. As far as mobile gaming and app use, my iPod Touch does those things perfectly – and it fits in my pocket.

I guess it’s aimed at a crowd of people who don’t need a full PC or Netbook but don’t mind shelling out more this device. Although I could ponder who that crowd actually is for hours, I won’t. The point is that the device isn’t aimed at me and if Apple can target the e-reader crowd then they’ll have something. However, I think that the price will put a lot of people off.

At least I don’t feel like I’ve been Appled. That was a fear I had going into this presentation, of feeling like I had to buy the next product, but luckily I don’t.