I just completed an epic quest. No it wasn’t on a video game like Warcraft… it was a Zune Quest. It led me all over the net and all over my computer, and the solution was simple and nowhere close to where I started.
For those of you in a hurry, here’s the short version.

I wrote an article nearly 2 years ago about what happens when your Zune won’t turn on. I still stand by that article, but wanted to give a little update to clarify something.
If you have just purchased a new Zune and it’s not turning on, it probably isn’t defective. Read on!

My Zune software had worked fine for several weeks until I moved my hard drive into another computer. At that point I started getting an error upon startup.
I looked at Microsoft’s solution which was very long, confusing, and led me to a web page with a dimmed out button and no explanation what to do [...]

Here is a term paper, dated February 11, 1992. It was written in graduate school and received an A. As with other papers on this site, the examples used have since been lost.
The late string quartets of Ludwig von Beethoven are monumental works in the development of the evolution of tonality in the 19th century.  [...]

I wrote this paper in graduate school. I recall being highly motivated by the subject, reading and researching as much for my own enjoyment as for this paper. It is dated June 1992, and received an A.
Chamber music had never been an integral part of French music until the end of the nineteenth century.  There [...]

It was 1990 and I was killing time in a record store, back in the days when they actually seemed to have them. And not even in a mall. I was shopping for CD’s, back in a day when people actually had those too.

Wow.

So as any good record store will do, they played new and [...]

A couple days after getting my Zune, I woke up and went to turn it on – and nothing. Nada. I went online in search for the answer, and found a lot of answers – and none that were the answer I was looking for.In my situation, it was far simpler than all of the [...]

I must preface this by telling you upfront that I have a boatload of tangents to go on. Bear with me and enjoy the ride…
I’ve always been interested in the Apple vs Microsoft saga. It’s interesting to see the usual tables turned when it comes to the portable music player market. Apple has roughly 70% [...]