Everything was going fine tonight while I was learning how to convert videos and put them on my Video iPod… until… it started crashing. I’d sync’ed with iTunes a few times during the evening while I was moving new videos on there until about half an hour ago when the iPod started clicking and flashing in slow succession, over and over. I tried hitting the play button to get the thing to go to sleep but to no avail. I’ve tried docking it, pressing other buttons, sliding the lock button on the top on and off, and saying things like ”CALM DOWN! GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF!” I also said a little prayer hoping it would just fix itself. This never seems to work as a problem resolution technique. Feeling the need to document my unhappy circumstance — and share it with you! — I grabbed my video camera and taped 20 seconds of video. I figure it’ll eventually die from lack of power at which time I’ll try plugging it back into the dock to see if it snaps out of it. Anyway, here’s the video in Windows MediaPlayer format *and* Video iPod format just to amp up the irony factor.
Ugh! I’m dreading having to go to Best Buy to get this thing worked on. I *knew* I shouldn’t have put pr0n on there!

WindowsMedia Player format  |  Video iPod format (also playable via Quicktime)