Didn’t intended to do any shopping today, but I ended up buying a few things.

Headphones from Sennheiser , the HD 415 which are replacing my ancient Phillips HP140. This is because old ones started to leave pieces of some black coating on my head … and they were shit from the beginning. HD 415 didn’t break the bank and still feel and sound good.

Another item on the list is Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000. Since I have started to use my desktop not only for gaming, I was really hating the standard Dell Keyboard, which it was delivered with – feel on the keys is just plain wrong and many times you have to use a lot of force to push a key down. I have some wireless Belkin keyboard, but it is shit as well – eats(doesn’t transmit)  letters and doesn’t have the responsiveness. So, now I have a nice low profile MS keyboard, I am still getting used to curved line of keys. The new keyboard has some multimedia keys present, I have been successful to map couple of them to the right functionality. But I still have problems with getting Back and Forward to actually work in FF – they have their own key codes so it is not Just Works (c) like with IBM keyboards ( they map them as alt+left and alt+right ). Also Banshee is refusing to react to Play/Pause button mapping.

I have finally bought a remote controlled mains socket switch. It’s just 5 quid and saves me diving behind a sofa to switch off my kit for the night. Yes, I have started to switch off all my equipment at the wall socket, this crap is using about 55W while on standby!!!!