technology Exceeds expectations.

Posted April 8, 2006 • Comments Off on Exceeds expectations.

The iPod is a thing of beauty. It’s so smooth and shiny and slender. It’s really very nice. I haven’t gotten used to the click wheel yet; I had very much gotten into the habit over the last couple years of touching the solid-state buttons on my old one with no force at all, and now I have to press. It means I have to hold the whole thing in a different way.

The way videos work is a little odd. I subscribed to some video podcasts to see how it would go. If you go through the Podcasts menu, it just plays the sound. You have to navigate to the same files through the Videos menu to get the video. It seems really stupid to me, but it’s just a little change, and I’ll get used to it.

The W.O.M.B.A.T. results are in, and I got an E (Exceeds Expectations). Yay!

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The test was behind the office door on www.jkrowling.com. I’m not sure whether it’s still possible to take the test. But if you want to see how the results look, you can use mine. Click the W.O.M.B.A.T. card on the front page and when the site comes up, enter my student ID, which is:

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