Printed 2014/03/16 07:48AM  A Dead Zune and Choices   Shortly
after the Zune debuted, I purchased one. And I've been happy
with it. It's done everything I expected out of a music/video
player and it's gone with me nearly everywhere. So I was a bit
saddened to pull it out this morning and see that the screen had
been cracked. Not the external glass, but the internal LED
screen. It's been a few days since I've used it. I believe the
last time was right before SQL Saturday in Atlanta. It had
gotten tossed in one of my laptop bags, one with plenty of
padding, but it looks like a sharp impact to the screen still
occured. I'm not sure if it occurred while it was in that bag or
some other time. Though it still plays, I can't read a single
thing on the screen, renduring the Zune unusable.  This morning
I thought about what to replace it with and got a few bits of
feedback from some folks on Twitter and on Facebook, but it'll
be probably a month or so before I do replace it. There's a very
good reason for the delay: i