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I go through phases of having music in the background while I’m working, but the usual pattern is for the first CD to finish and three hours of silence to elapse before I realise. The CD player is the other side of the room, which is just far enough for it to be beyond notice when things go quiet. FM radio in this area isn’t brilliant either, despite the fact that the apartment block has an external antenna.

Then I stumbled across streaming radio, after hooking up external speakers to the laptop base station. Problem solved – hiss-free continuous background music, and a wider selection of genres and styles you couldn’t wish for. Current favourite for building websites to is www.gaydarradio.com, which is exactly the kind of bouncy cheesy borderline hi-nrg pop you’d expect…

The BBC says

“The sound of your mobile ringtone could be in for a big change if a new service proves as popular in Europe as it has been in South Korea. Korean firm WiderThan’s service lets users choose what the person they are calling hears when their mobile rings. “

Clever idea, but anyone using it to call me is likely to be disappointed – my phone goes “ring ring” in a style last seen in 1995, so any other noises just get subconciously filtered. It takes me about 6 months to get used to a change in ring tone that I’ve made, so if a caller expects me to respond because they’re alerting me with the William Tell overture, they’re probably going to be disappointed…