After a 7,500,000:1 chance encounter yesterday in central London, I felt quite chuffed with my l33t improvisation skillz yesterday on the return train journey back to the office.

Because the very short headphone cable mini-jack section I use with my Nokia N95 was annoyingly too short to comfortably reach my noggin from my table bound iPod which was eagerly waiting to play me a podcast - plus I’d just bought a new FM transmitter for my iPod - so I tuned the FM radio receiver in the N95 to the frequency the iPod+transmitter was at and then connected the full Nokia headset with its proprietary extension to the N95 and listened to my iPod through the Nokia N95.

Fortunately as it was a late morning train, there was nobody else in my carriage to look at me strangely.

But I did smile as I considered the millions of dollars of investment and product development that had been expended on this configuration just to enable me to listen to what is, in effect, a taped tech radio talkshow. Bloody marvellous.