Flashes of Panic

Barb asked about the picture over on the right. I explained the picture in a very, very early post here. I should link the photo to it.

Adam asked about the results of my iPod surgery. I guess I never posted the conclusion to my oldest iPod story. (I replaced the battery, but couldn’t get it to connect to my Powerbook and transfer songs, I presume due to an issue with the Firewire connector.) I ended up giving the little brick to my brother, who offered to take it in to the shop at his work where they had some precision soldering gear. He figured if he could re-solder the connectors, then he’d slap a glob of epoxy on to keep them there.

Unfortunately, he didn’t have any success getting the connectors re-soldered, so the old iPod is still pretty much non-functional. It will charge, but it won’t mount on a Mac, so you can’t change songs or playlists. For the most part, this doesn’t concern me enough that I’m ready to spend more time or money on it; my existing unit is just fine for what I want it to do. If there’s anything I regret, it’s that there are a dozen or two songs on there which I don’t have backed up elsewhere (I’ve learned my lesson on that.)

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