Now that I have 10.5 ‘Leopard’ installed on both my Macs, and all my documents copied back across into nice, clean, user folders, I finally copied all my iTunes stuff back in.

I did actually mess up just copying the iTunes folders and XML database back themselves, so I decided to just add the tracks back to my new library. Certainly, I lost some stats info, but I never looked at that anyway, so no great lost there. What was surprising though is that there seems to be a fair few tracks with missing meta tag data. Not so many to take more than thirty minutes to fix, but I am curious iTunes-san, where the hell did you ditch those tags?

Just a note to say ‘hi’ to Sarah. I haven’t seen her for about twenty years, but somehow we got each other’s e-mail a year or two ago, and more recently exchanged IM addresses and lo and behold, last week we were both on at the same time and had a quick chat. If you’re reading this, it was great to exchange some words, and all the best to you and your significant other. Also, despite the smoke and mirrors, it’s great to know you’re a WoW gamer!

It’s a little known factoid it seems that the Apple Calculator also does conversions for speed, size, weight and also foreign currencies. Indeed I’ve used this a few times myself for trips. However, after updating the currency values, it seems Apple no longer thinks the Yen or the Euro are major currencies; however the Tenge and the Hungarian Forint are right up there on the list.

Oddly, the Unit Converter Widget seems to show all the currencies correctly.

It’s become de rigueur recently for the upper management of Sony to make some fairly outlandish, or even completely false statements in interviews, with the goal of boosting the hype level for the Playstation 3, in the face of less than raging demand, and tougher-than-expected competition

The only problem seems to be that with each month they show more contempt for their customers. Maybe within Sony there’s some kind of arrogance crown to be won, possibly currently held by the spin guru who came up with 2005′s root kit fiasco. Yeah, that guy actually invaded people’s PCs and didn’t tell them. Woot! pwn3d! (or similar, complete with high fives in the Sony company canteen).

So how is a Playstation division person supposed to show potential customers what Sony really think of our patronage?

I’ve got an idea, and the best thing is, they can field test it at the swanky Sony Building in Ginza. To show how much they value us, the customers, Sony should beat people upon entering their showcase building commensurate with how many Sony products they own.

For my friends and I then, ‘L’ will likely just get a clip round the ear and told to do better as he’s actively shed all Sony gear in the last year. I’m probably looking at a sound kicking in the corner for owning a PS2 and a PSP, and my cries of “that was a present!’ will be ignored by the cheering Sony minions as they forcibly satisfy my alleged customer cravings.

Save your pity for ‘S’; as a bit of a Sony fanboy (though currently in remission), he’s looking at a beating which starts with a friendly knee in the happy sack and goes downhill from there. When they find out just how many games he owns he really will need serious medical attention, but damn will he know how much Sony care for their loyal customers.

Finally, for what’s worth, you can buy a PS3 in pretty much any shop in Tokyo, but getting a Wii requires mad ninja skillz or the ability to wait in line. Let’s see how our masochistic consumerism does over the next year though.