[Ref 1 Ref 2]

I'm currently listening to Five Live through my bluetooth speakers. I've achieved this by forgoing Banshee for this facility and turning instead to MPlayer. This was really easy, especially as I use the gmplayer GUI.

If you're in a similar position to me then firstly, you have my sympathy and secondly, do the following to hear your MPlayer output without wires:

Right-click and select Preferences; Select Audio; Select alsa; Configure driver; Type bluetooth in the Device field.

This assumes that you've done the .asoundrc magic detailed in the BlueZ Audio Wiki entry.

If you want the same to be your default in the command-line version of MPlayer, put ao=alsa:device=bluetooth in your $HOME/.mplayer/config - you can make the same change to $HOME/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf to send browser plugin audio across the ether.

I'd still rather the BBC switched to Ogg Vorbis but it's better than nothing. Plus, it means that I've now set the MPlayer browser plugin up for bluetooth audio which is handy for me.

Update: Don't forget that it simply wasn't possible to set the speakers up within Windows beyond bonding with them.

I've added an Ogg Vorbis podcast to the Bursledon Parish sermons page. I'll be sending the patch to make this work to the maintainer of DirCaster real soon.

Sixteen years ago, it was her husband's turnaround to finish second in New Hampshire that earned him the nickname "The Comeback Kid". Last night, Hillary Clinton won in the granite state against all the odds (apparently, UK bookies were offering 8/1 against her) as well as the polls which showed a ten-point lead for Barack Obama. In the Republican primary, John McCain also turned things around to take first place. So, four elections (two each for the two parties) and four winners. What have we learnt, if anything, so far?

I'm not sure we've learnt anything other than that polls are unreliable and that this election really could see anyone representing either party. It's going to be exciting over the next 300 days to see how it pans out.