iChat pulled a Houdini with my buddy list [update]

[Update: it appears to have been an AIM glitch, I got my list back! now i’m going to back it up…]

You remember last month when iTunes randomly decided to glitch and delete all of my music data? Well I finally got that sorted out about a week ago - I erased iTunes and all of its weirdness, got a program that dumped all of the data and music from my iPod onto my computer, and then re-installed iTunes. Then I had to erase my iPod and have the computer reformat and re-link it, despite the fact it was identical to the iTunes library (sigh).

Well anyway, iChat decided to delete my AIM buddy list last night. So…

I’m disconnected from the world of AIM. That means everyone I’ve added since middle school is more gone that Michael Jackson’s child. I think applications that start with a little “i” actually hate me. It’s a good thing this new computer I got doesn’t start with one, or I’m sure it would probably disembowel me in my sleep, just for the fun of it.

Also, and I’m saying this in the spirit of research and science, in my experience Windows has more glitches, but the glitches I’ve had with Apple software have been a lot more damaging. I’m tempted to say more frequent and less harmful is better.

I am also willing to blame AOL, if it turns out their server just wiped my list.