Category Archives: WTF?

There are a handful of simple things that even the fantastic Mac OS-X doesn’t do right out of the box. For one, because of all the legal hooey around digital music copyrights, you’re unable to simply backup your iPod to your computer using iTunes. If you’ve only got one iTunes library that you’re syncing to, this isn’t much of an issue. But if you’re managing your music manually, like I am, and you’ve got music and media spread across multiple computers, then being able to backup the files from your iPod to one place becomes a necessity. That’s what I’ve been trying to do for the last 30 minutes. What I’ve discovered is a valuable lesson to anyone in the software business: there is a right way and a wrong way to deliver trial software.

Frequent commenter RB pointed out this article on Wired.com about “scooter trends” which turned out to have almost nothing to do with scooters at all. What’s more it appears to be a fumbled rehash of this interview for Taiwan Economic News. I expect more from Wired and am annoyed at the consistent misconception Americans and American journalists have of scooters, scooterists, and scooting.