So far I’ve been pretty hard on my Apple/Sony iPod earphones. I drop them, smack them into doors, sit on them while they’re in my bag… they’d begun to develop a bit of a buzz that I had to squeeze them to fix.

But then, a couple of days ago, I stepped on one of them and cracked it open. (They look really cool inside, btw.) I Superglued it back together, and it still works, but the ‘phones themselves are not long for this world.

I surfed all the obvious places – Amazon.com, the Apple Store – and I’ll be damned if you just can’t find a set of replacement ‘phones! It would be easier in Asia or the UK, but in the States you can only get those in-ear thingies. Anyway, finally I pulled my head out and tried eBay. And that’s where they all are, the replacement ‘phones.