The Blue Sword

Thank-you, queenofhalves and the other folks who recommended that I read The Blue Sword. I finally got around to it this weekend, and enjoyed it a great deal. Harry is very much my kind of heroine: kidnapped into adventure and discovering that she has unguessed-at talents, tremendous leadership potential, physical and moral courage, and the ability to become a bridge between worlds. My only dissatisfaction was that the portrayal of the love element of her relationship with Corlath wasn't a bit better developed. The ending didn't exactly jar, but it seemed more a result of genre expectations than what McKinley showed between them in the story. (Or maybe I was just reading too fast and doing so with more than the usual number of distractions?)

iPod Update

777 tracks on the pod this morning.
Less than half of what was there Saturday morning.
Merg.
It's a bloody long process.

And to add insult to injury, Real doesn't want to transfer .wav files to the pod, when MusicMatch did, which means that I can't just transfer over two dozen or so of my quotes from movies and television that I had on it before. I tried to burn them to CD in .mp3 format and then put them back onto the hard drive, but all I got was squealing noise. I don't know if I missed a setting I should have used or what, because I thought I had done that successfully before.

The good news about Real is that, unlike MusicMatch, it allows me to edit track labels on the iPod. Previously, if I noticed a track had the wrong genre assignment, or if something was misspelled, I had to back and edit the original track on my computer and then transfer the track over to the iPod. If I had deleted the track from the computer, I had to re-record it first, and then do the corrections and then transfer it over. Now, I can just edit what's on the pod. I haven't tried the playlist function, but I hope it has the same flexibility. I was never happy with the way the other system handled playlists. Once it was recorded, the whole list had to be deleted and re-made if I wanted to make changes.

All of which are, of course, grumbles of affluence. My cool luxury toy isn't behaving exactly as I want it to. Wah.

Another Shameless Icon Plea

I have another plea for help with lettering on an icon.

I would like to have the words Never Surrender on this image.

Can anyone help me?

I can email the icon to you if you can't just copy from this entry.

Thanks!