I’d been playing with the idea of trying to hook up more (digital) music in the living room. I wanted something that’s more on-demand and easier to control. I tried my iPod but this doesn’t interact with last.fm (I like keeping a listening history). I tried my iPhone – it’s hacked to run MobileScrobbler and therefore can log to last.fm. But this gives me issues when people call or send me texts. I tried plugging my laptop into the speakers. This was a little awkward because the laptop has to sit next to the TV and the speaker (running the cable all over the place is just not a good idea especially when people are over). And this method just made it hard to do work; I was standing hunched over trying to type emails. I started looking for other devices around the house. The PSP was nice and would’ve looked cool next to the TV – but I couldn’t figure out a way to get last.fm running properly – and syncing music with the system didn’t really fit my workflow. Then, my Nokia N800 volunteered for the job. I found a last.fm client for Maemo called Vagalume that works pretty well – it watches my last.fm radio and plays tracks non-stop. And it looks really cool. Sweet.