Don't attempt this when drunk ...

... because I did.

I replaced the battery in my 3rd generation iPod last night. I ordered a new one online from a UK battery reseller for only £20. It arrived in a baggie with just the battery and two plastic tools for opening the iPod up. Nothing else. No instructions. Nada.

So here is the online video showing you how to replace an iPod battery. WARNING! 16MB movie!

Notice how easily the iPod comes apart for this guy. It took me ages of fiddling and nearly breaking the plastic chopstick before mine came apart. Every time I got the tool round to the other side, the opposite side would click back together! Arrghh! You also need really small and slender fingers to undo the battery clip and the hard drive connector, once you've got the little **** apart. It's an amazing miracle of modern technology just how small the components inside of it are.

But still, I managed it after about half an hour! So, it's fixed, it's working and the battery lasts the whole day again just like when it was new! I'm a happy man. And I saved £70 on Apple's ridiculously high UK iPod replacement battery prices.

But I have to reiterate. Don't attempt it when drunk. It's scary.

17th of July: Non-Photography Day

Someone's been flyposting in Brighton that 17 July is Non-Photography Day. "CELEBRATE THE MOMENT DON'T DOCUMENT IT". It turns out that it's 'Becca, a Brighton based photographic artist'. Hmmm.

So, being a perverse kind of chap, I thought it would be a great idea to create a Flickr group especially for it! So, I go off to check and of course someone's beaten me to it. Twice.

But neither of them have hit on my great twist! For my group you can only post pictures of people taking pictures on non-photography day!! Pictures of people flouting the essentialness of celebrating the moment!!!

But then I got bored and didn't do it. Oh well.