NaughtySpawn|Manure is an art and I consider myself an accomplished artist

My frustration level with the iPod has been pretty high. It just seems that so much should be included in the price and every time you turn around there is another accessory it should have. But moving past that, I am finally happy with my iPod. I understand how to get my music on there no problem, I’ve even put some TV episodes on there. And now, I’ve purchased some pretty cool games from the app store. At least I think they’re pretty cool.

So far this is what I have:

Monopoly World Edition
Simcity
Texas Hold ‘Em
Scrabble
World of Blackjack Pro
Imagine Poker Touch
Let’s Golf
MotionX Poker Quest

These are pretty silly, but they seem so much more fun when you’re waiting in an office or just wasting some time. I’ve actually been playing in the living room since there is so little on TV these days. You really have to play your purchases with this thing, but once you do, it’s pretty fun.

The new code is in place. Let’s hope this doesn’t blow up in our faces over the weekend.

There comes a point after the launch where things are just too messed up to keep going forward. We’ve come to that point. The underlying code changes have revealed a problematic bug and we have to put everything back the way we found it. It’s going to take a week to fix and retest the problem and we can’t leave things the way they are. So, now we’re testing that the original code is still working correctly and push it live before the long weekend.

Dear Lord, who f-ed up the code?

This stuff was working in the staging environment and now it’s all broken to hell when we push to production. What the hell’s up with that?

Not as bad as a I thought, but there are a few flaws…

Something doesn’t seem right. I sense there are issues with the code and that they will reveal themselves to us tomorrow at 7am.

We’re getting close to another launch. It’s the last day to check over everything and make sure we haven’t missed something really obvious. I have this feeling something is going to bite us in the ass tomorrow morning…

Ok, I finally got the hang of iTunes and got some music on the iPod. I even converted a couple episodes of 24 and got them to play. Once you throw common sense out the window, iTunes makes all the sense in the world!

I have some music, I got some videos (maybe even a naughty one) and even managed to get Blackjack installed on there. I’m makin’ gravy without the lumps baby!

The frustration has started to subside. However, I do realize I don’t exactly have the coolest music collection in the world. I have tons of music, but I think it’s lacking in many sense. Time to visit the Amazon store and download some MP3 files. Screw buying music from iTunes.

iTunes makes me sad. Dare I say it has brought me close to tears. I’ve had to ask a couple of my friends and works to give me a crash course in how to use it. Clearly no sane human being can figure it out on their own.

Apparently everything is a playlist.

Oh my GOD! This is the worst application ever written! How the hell do people use this damn thing? There is nothing about iTunes which makes sense to me. I’m beginning to think this iPod isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.