Good, cheap bicycle lighting is here

A few months back, DealExtreme started carrying a P7 LED based headlight for bikes, for $80. Early reports were that they had some QC issues; inconsistent beams, aluminum machining flakes inside with the circuitry, bad solder joints. But they were good enough that a US vendor, GeoMan, started carrying them and worked with the manufacturer to address the QC issues and make improvements based on user feedback on the cycling forums.

The result is that the folks that have bought them in the last month or two have been incredibly impressed; they're comparing favorably to lights from Lupine and Lights & Motion which usually run more in the $500 to $700 range.

My HID died a bit over a year ago, and I picked up a Dinotte 200L for a bit over $100. It's pretty nice and all, runs on AA batteries, but the light output doesn't quite cut it on the washboarded gravel roads that I ride on. On pavement it was fine, but on gravel I found myself either having to slow down or running the chance of hitting potholes I didn't see in time. So today I ordered one of these new lights; Geoman is in NM and is charging $90.

Bike lights right now are suffering from the same issue that computers had for a long time; buy a $200 light now, in a year there'll be a better one for less money. But I think we're getting to where you can buy an excellent light for relatively cheap.

Here's the link if anyone wants to look. I'll post pics when it comes in.

What's YOUR theory?

...on music sorting?

I have a few things I'm not decided on when it comes to filing music. Maybe some of you have tried and succeeded or failed and can share.

Classical: Do you list the composer as the artist, or the performer? IOW, under W.A. Mozart, or Detroit Symphony Orchestra? I'm leaning towards the performer, because that leads to some consistency; treating them as basically "covers" of the pieces. I wouldn't file "Hurt" by Johnny Cash under Nine Inch Nails, for instance.

Genres: If you organize by directory structure, do you have genre folders, like Classical, Rock, Comedy, etc? Or do you put Bill Cosby in the same folder as Quiet Riot and Tchaikovsky? At the very least I'd want to put audiobooks in a folder to separate that, and if I do that, it'd be easier to tell Songbird to organize things this way in general. But when you get to modern music, it's difficult sometimes to assign a genre to a group, especially ones that have been around a long time and have morphed their style.

I'm sure I'll find other things to ask too.

Audiobook finished

Heechee Rendezvous by Frederik Pohl
Book 3 of the Heechee series.

Good stuff, on to book 4.