Having enabled streaming audio on my Treo, the primary current discontent is, naturally, format wars. Pocket Tunes is advertised as .wma compatible, yet accessing an ‘mms:’ URL produces no output, alas. Likewise and unsurprisingly, there’s no .ram support.

Of course, a key station in my transistor of the future (and past) relies solely on these two formats, and as the internet has ‘progressed’ in the past few years, the former practice of directing an audio stream to a free simultaneous transcoding service appear to be as dead as any realistic hopes for $1.29 gas or a speedy withdrawal from Iraq.

Those fuckers.