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I was told this interesting story the other day that you funky trendy cutting edge coolass iPod owners should know. Winson told me this, who happened to be a good freind of Shane, his Alpha Wing platoon mate and Guitarist for Potential Problem, who in turn is but of course close to this guy who was a clerk, CO's PA, and happened to be serving gaurd duty at School Of Logistics where Winson and I have been going to, who was Potential Problem's Bassist.

Right. So this guy, the Bassist, owns an iPod. It's really nice i hear, i've never held one because all the iPod's i've come across with have either been bolted down to acrylic display boards, or snatched out of sight by freinds with tendencies to accuse others of envy/jealosy.

So on an iPod, apparantly, is one button and one dial. How Minimalistic. Internal rechargeable batteries don't even show any clue as to where the power comes from. You don't turn it on or off. Just a tap on your universal button brings it to life, and the dial is all you need to tell it what to do. All this, encased in a lovely fruity coloured plastic shell of dubious protection.

Aha, but why do i say dubious protection?

Because Winson, Shane and this Bassist guy takes a bus one day, Winson tells me one occasion after we walk past the Bassist guy serving duty at the gaurdhouse. The iPod owning Bassist guy sits down on the bus seat, and in an unfortunate twist of fate or trousers, his 2month old iPod slipped from his pant pocket and fell to the floor. It slipped from when the guy was just seated, so the height would be an approximate knee length measured from the bus floor to the seat, oh and the height of this guy's bum.

His fruity coloured iPod suffered from the fall. It froze without dropping below zero d'celsius. It jammed without a band. It hung without a noose. No amount of dialing and buttoning would jolt his poor iPod from carrying out it's equivalent of a paused video impersonation.

The Fatal Flaw: it's lovely Minimalistic design had only one dial, and one button. There was no archaic and outdated items like the out-of-style ON/OFF switch, or the somewhat more advanced but still uncool POWER button. When your handphone hung, you'd turn it off and then on it again. But you can't with an iPod.

But since we've been equating the solutions with handphones, what about removing the batteries and putting it in again to reset? We'd do that to HPs that wouldn't react to the on/off button. Alas, the fruity coloured iPods were bolted shut, with the bolts hidden, and even if it were open the rechargable battery was internal, noone knew the extent of disassembling would be needed to off the iPod this way.

And so, my poor freind's freind's freind, that Bassist Guy, stared at his frozen/jammed/hung iPod all the way to camp, then for the week, till the next weekend to book out and send it to the Apple shop.



AGood on you, those that bought the Creative Zen player, or better yet traded your iPod for it last week :) I'm sticking to CDs all the way...