I'm now on GPRS again, as I'm going up to London for the Bloggers Meetup which I've been trying to promote. If you are gonna be in Soho at 7pm tonight, please drop by All Bar One on Dean Street. We'd love to see you. 
GPRS is now much easier for me to use, since I've set it so that my phone now responds to Menu+6 to rescan on Bluetooth. Motorola's menu system leaves a lot to be desired, and I can now avoid even more of it.
GPRS is running fairly quickly. To be honest, it doesn't feel nearly as sluggy as it used to do. (It's not faster, it just feels faster).
My new LyX install is poppin'. The OS X instructions on the wiki are good, especially now that the whole setup is Univseralised. I'm turning out JuraBib. Now, JuraBib is a good system. It has about three default styles, and they're all good. The problem with BibTex is that there are hundreds of variations for obscure journals but very few really good general purpose humanities styles.
The jureco theme is exactly what I've been looking for. The thing which JuraBib does nicely is that it actually lets you put in 'text before', which is so useful if you are doing lots of "Smith in Jones, 1970" style references, as you can keep a consistent style throughout your document. They all come out like {(Smith in Jones, 1970, p. 4)} rather than before where you had to do (Smith in {Jones, 1970, p.4}). Small difference, but when you're writing lots, it's important.
Next pet peeve: there aren't enough music podcasts without talking. I want soul, R&B, jazz and ambient podcasts without chatter, without artist interviews and sales patter. When I listen to music, I just want the sounds - I'm doing something else most of the time. Voices are off putting when one's working.
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