Time for a fresh start

My joyous little iPod has arrived and has had it’s first row with Annabelle the laptop. Thus I have given in to the inevitable if I’m ever to listen to music again – time to reformat Annabelle. She’s been refusing to rip cds for a while now, and doesn’t much like burning them either. She doesn’t just complain, she bluescreens, and enters a neverending cycle of reboot, BSOD, reboot until I hold the power button. When next restarted she complains of a “serious system error”. No shit, Sherlock. I thought she might prefer iTunes to Windows Media Player but apparently not.

So, here begins the long haul of working out what of my many miles of crap is worth saving, and then trying to work out how to save it with a computer that hates cds…