I'm going to need a lot of elastics

I am going to castrate the developers at Mircosoft and Apple.

I wake up this morning and my computer has restarted. It's a bit strange, but apparently there was a mega security patch that Windows needed to download to they could (shock!) make IE more secure. Usually Windows Updater asks me before I install it, but apparently it couldn't wait this time. Generally I don't object to automatic updates, but when they fuck things up, I lose trust and I lose my sanity.

So it's restarted, but for some reason, my ipod isn't showing in itunes. Windows Explorer shows it as a removable disk, but nothing in itunes can't recognize it. The best part, when I disconnect it, all the songs have been wiped from it. Gone.

A venomous fury erupts within me. M and the cat hide. Yes I can put most of the songs back on, but that's not in any way the point. Microsoft hath wronged me. They must pay.

I check that I'm using the right version of itunes, restart, reboot, sacrifice a goat... Nothing. So I try to restore the factory settings ask it asks me to do, and it can't because there's a newer version of itunes on the system. And thus it is decided that Apple must feel pain too.

I need to get to work at this point, so I can enjoy a music-less miserable day, so I have to leave the task of fixing it all for later. I think I have found the instructions for what I need to do so I can continue the ipod saga for the rest of the weekend. To keep in theme with the current holiday, my ipod will be playing the part of Christ.

And if my treasured ipod can't be resurrected... Apple, Microsoft... Doesn't matter to me. Someone's losing their balls.

HRH