Today was interesting. The MP3 player arrived, which was really cool. Lunch was Eddington's again. I still really like the Chicken Potato Chowder. For work stuff it was a bit of a mix. Planned a little bit for the upgrade in a bit over a week. Not looking forward to that at all except for the fact it'll be out of the way. Of course we need a few more parts to finish it off too. We were able to get set up around that though. Also figured out why we couldn't talk to one of our servers in San Diego. It helps if the tech hooking it up knows which switches are on which physical networks. Also played a bit with HTML Applications to get around security policies in IE (yea, I know. It's for a very specific use). It's sorta weird because the place has gotten quieter with finals starting so the staff are relaxed, but the students are more stressed out than ever. After work I was poking around figuring I'd keep doing stuff and wait until the batch transfer I had going finished when some people wanted to stop and see the fun stuff I'd done to my house. Ended up going home and they thought it was a lot bigger which was cool. The giant antenna in the living room turned into an HD demo, and the new speakers prompted an audio demo. After they left more people came over, and I gave them back their computer in exchange for a snowblower. It's a little noisy and the hand-start is broken, but it has electric start and otherwise seems to work fine. Hard to beat the price though. They left and then it was time to start copying music again. Of course since the Karma uses the same database as the other Rio products and a custom FS I had to get the ID3 tags updated. Again the annoying thing where people get lazy typing things into CDDB gets really annoying really fast came up. I thought it was fast copying over 802.11b to the thing, but then I pulled out another ethernet cable and have it running at 100Mbps now. Syncing goes pretty quick when you do that. :) This little java application is nice since I can use it on any machine and select tons of files and it'll copy them as it can (including handling disconnecting the player for a while and then connecting it and picking up again). The fact that it's java and multi-platform is awesome. I have 10.47GB transfered or queued to transfer at this point, which is pretty good. Should be finished copying for now. I think I'll leave the rest for a bit, and maybe this weekend look into the process of re-ripping and doing a dual conversion into FLAC and Vorbis. It'd be nice to fit more onto the player (my old one is only 6GB, but even 20GB seems limiting for mp3 storage). Hopefully I'll be able to pick out CDs I haven't listened to in a while and not have to start dropping things I want to listen to again. :( Anyways, work comes way too soon...