So, do I bury it in the backyard or flush it?

I believe my iPod is dead.

I bought an iPod Shuffle, the 1GB size, when they were first released. It isn’t an item I use constantly but it is certainly something I’ve used regularly since I bought it. It is the awesome.

A week or two ago I went to use it and nothing happened; no lights flickered, no music played, nothing. I figured that the battery wasn’t charged and placed it on its USB cable to do so. When I came back later, the battery light flashed red at me and nothing more. Crap.

I checked into battery replacement with Apple. It turns out that replacing a Shuffle battery costs about as much as a new Shuffle. Crap.

I think my iPod is dead. I really didn’t want any incentive to look at a shiny 80GB video iPod. Unfortunately, now I have a little of such incentive. 80GB still isn’t enough to hold my entire iTunes library, so what’s the point?