iPod shuffle: more thoughts, wishlist

As you may come to notice, I enjoy spreading out my product reviews over time. It takes more time to get to know a product than I can possibly do in the span of a few days and cough up one monolithic review. You'll see monolithic reviews, too, but certain products lend themselves to new and changing thoughts over time.

The iPod shuffle is one such product. I carry it with me every day and have been using it almost constantly since
it arrived. Some more thoughts:

• I ended up losing the lanyard before I lost the end cap. Go figure.
• Battery life is quite nice. It's one of the few devices I own that I end up remembering to charge at some point
  before the battery dies. I can't tell you the maximum play time I've seen because I haven't yet run the battery
  completely down, despite leaving it play for hours and hours, all the time.
• The on/off switch in the back is pretty clever, but one drawback: it's very difficult to manipulate with a gloved
  hand. All very well when designed in California, not so well when used in upstate NY in the middle of winter! :)
• I wish that, whenever I plugged it in to the machine it's paired with (my Titanium, e.g.), I would first get an
  option about whether I want to sync it, or just charge it. I like the sync function and don't want to turn it off,
  but if I need to charge it when I'm out and about, it will resync the same playlist that's already on it – which is
  bad because the drive my MP3s live on is not connected to my laptop. I end up with a paltry subset of the music that
  was already on the shuffle and should never have been removed.
• I really really want a function available from my browsers that is "Send to shuffle" – right-click a URL to an
  audio file and automagically send it to the shadow
  shuffle to be synced next time I plug it in.

Anybody else have any wishes for iPod shuffle or shuffle integration features?