• Comes in that stupid plastic packaging that causes you to lose a finger trying to knife it open
• Comes with a clip
• Comes with a rectangle thing with holes in... think it's a storage device.
• Comes with a cool Sennheiser bag
• Noticeable improvement over the Apple iPod earphones almost immediately
• Bass!
• Non tangle cabling similar to Sennheiser's headphones
• Couldn't find a bud suitable for my left ear! Comes with lots of buds, though.
• Being in the ear blocks other sounds
• Takes more time to take out and put in
• Seemed to fall out more often when moving around

Overall I am quite impressed with the earphones. I don't know if I will continue to use them at work, though. Cancelling out sounds completely means people have to shout at me to get my attention.

A long time ago I stopped using play.com because it began taking a week or more for deliveries. Originally it took a day. The stuff only had to travel from Jersey to Guernsey. It takes amazon.co.uk and most other services a day or two for delivery.

I decided to give them another shot and ordered some Sennheiser CX 500 earphones and some cables to connect my PC and HDTV on Tuesday. The next day I receive three emails a few seconds apart telling me they'd been individually dispatched. I didn't receive an email for one component, which play.com listed as in stock. Looking at it now:- its no longer in stock, for say by play.com (originally was, now only playtrade) and has increased in price by £10. Okay...

On Friday I get home to find three ridiculously sized boxes. Each box could easily fit five more of the product it was carrying inside. Every single box had it's own invoice. What the fuck? What a complete waste of boxing and paper as well as the postal services time. If other online shops can manage to box an order up together, play.com has no valid excuse.

I was also disappointed to see the limited manufacturer options I had for these cables (not counting playtrade, as I'd rather avoid the third party stuff). I noticed that they had no problem stocking Monsters rip-off cables, though.

Oh well, at least the delivery time is more resonable again!

My iPod earphones have been sellotaped together for a good few months now (hey, I stood on 'em). On Tuesday I ordered some Sennheiser CX 500's to replace them. On Thursday, I accidentally stood on the iPod earphones and did this:-

Good timing if I don't say so myself. The Sennheiser's haven't arrived yet, but I've found some Sony earphones that cost me around £10 about five years ago! The odd thing is they sound *much* better than the Apple earphones and are a damn sight more comfortable.

Last year I was working away in Windows XP when explorer randomly locked up. After I while i received this error:-

The error is documented on Microsoft's website, here.

It was a bit of a WTF? moment...

I've recently been looking at multi threading and bumped into this. Microsoft's example of threading involves creating a progress bar that randomly increments or decrements every one hundred milliseconds.