Advice to the rest of the world

Taking an overnight flight across the USA under the influence of a sleeping pill, then going by bus straight into work after landing, is not a good idea. I'm quite glad I didn't write much code today, because I have a feeling that what I did put down (in the rare moments when I could find the keyboard and stab at it shakily) was pretty demented.

iTunes and I have got off to a pretty rocky start, in that I dedicated a great deal of time trying to find applications that replicated its behaviour so that I didn't have to install it, but the general opinion seems to be that no one could keep up with the changing video iPod firmware, so I've had to put it on my home computer. If Microsoft had written anything like this then people would have lynched them - it "organizes" your music to its own convenience and it's very unclear what it's doing underneath. It also had the bright idea of trying to update via USB, convert all my WMAs to M4As and analyze gapless track information all at the same time, taking over my computer for a considerable length of time when I started it up.

Still, look on the bright side - at least it's not Realplayer.