It turns out the manual activation of the backlight not working with the new Ipod firmware is a known issue. Thanks Apple! That was an upgrade well worth a half hour install and a restart. Uh, not.

In other silliness news, I noticed that Mark Pilgrim’s Butler script blocks Google ads. I wonder how often the ad to buy his book on Google has made him money. Come on, Mark, don’t you think your script would be sufficiently useful without that?