With the prospect of a 6 hour flight ahead of me tomorrow I had a look to see if my iPod was still working. Amazingly after about 6 months sitting idle in a draw it managed to power up when I found the USB cable and plugged it in.

I had a quick look at the music installed and decided maybe it was time to refresh it a little so went to download iTunes.

It's been a while since I installed it but I was amazed at the 49MB download needed just to install a pretty simple music player.

Just like Acrobat the download has blow up out of all proportion. Exactly what is going on in there that needs this much code. Is this why machines are needing bigger processors and more CPU to do every day tasks... developers or product managers think it's fine to add thousands of lines of code to solve a problem when maybe thinking a bit more, though harder, would provide a more elegant solution.

I'll need to defrag my disk when this is installed. And no doubt it'll want to convert everything to m4a and take control of my machine