last friday...

my iPod died. my iBook went to sleep with it plugged in, the iBook refused to wake up so i 'force-restarted' it. *bleep* iTunes does not recognise this volume. Please restore iPod.

4000 songs wiped just like that. oh well, that'll teach me to manually update the old 'Pod and not have it backed-up anywhere else.

it's now happily sync-ed, and all the fusty old tracks that i never listened to anyway have gone. it's a new slimline spring-cleaned 'Pod - or that's what i tell myself as i painstakingly load all my music back on to it again.