la la la women don't get teknology!

I found this dumb article via PopGadget: Would you rip files at a high or low bit-rate? Do you prefer AAC, WMA or MP3? If you are completely baffled by these questions, you are probably a woman. The terminology relates to downloading music, and a recent study by the British Phonographic Industry found that 96 per cent of tracks are downloaded by men.

Not only do I know what those questions mean, I do not prefer any of those file formats - I prefer oggs, which have the advantage of being both open-source and less compressed. I have quit downloading and converting music because it's just way too time-consuming, which maybe they should have considered with the 96 percent statistic.

Arrgh, and the women they interview! "If I'm honest, most of the time I deliberately act helpless, because I know there will always be someone who can help me, whether it's my husband or a male colleague at work," she says. "If I take on board a little of what I am taught about a computer or an iPod, I will have to learn the rest myself. Whenever I hear some new music that I like, I'll just make a list of songs for my husband to download for me." That's just lovely. Now go back to the fifties, where you belong.

Really, learning how to use an iPod or the computer is not very hard. It is just annoying, and Hello Kitty packaging will not make it less so.