The state of things: hardware

My iPod has been unhappy lately. Since probably before my trip to NJ but I wasn't using it then, so I am not sure. Anyway, on the trip, it would decide it was going to skip 20+ songs at a time, then play a few and then skip a slew more. After about a week of trying, I finally got the iPod updater to reformat it, and I copied some music over to it. I rebooted my computer, and the iPod hung my PC (that was another bad behaviour it developed).

Today, we went to the Apple store (with the iPod and 2 year extended warranty box in hand) to get some idea of what I could do about it only to be told that my warranty wasn't associate with my iPod serial number. I called Apple Care and it turns out that my warranty was associated with my iPod right after I purchased it, but in Jan '05, it got transferred to someone else. I have to call them again on Monday and get it all straightened out and then I get a brand new replacement iPod. Yay, Apple! (Boo that they couldn't fix the weirdness today, but it's Saturday so that's not too shocking).

In other news, we'd picked up a USB wireless whosit for my Tivo, but it didn't work with the Tivo so back to the store it went. There was a CompUSA next door to the Staples (where we'd gone originally) so we wandered over and asked about USB wireless whosits for Tivos. The helpful sales person brought us over to the Tivo area and handed us a Tivo branded gadget. Yay, that means very high likelihood of happy technogies. Except my Tivo has been offline since last September when I moved, so now the poor thing is downloading software updates and whatnot so we can even use the wireless goodness.

Overall, a good hardware day.