I decided to update the software on my iPod as it’s still not behaving. I needed to put in my “Apple ID” to download it. Not sure whether I had an Apple ID, I used my email address and guessed what password I would have used.

“Welcome Stephen (not Stephen? click here)”

Well. I have never been Stephen. I was named Steven when I was born, and have been Steve since I was about 19. So I clicked there. It logged me out again. I logged in again and looked for somewhere I could edit my profile.

But it’s not that, it’s more a question of where the hell do they get off deciding what my name is? How did they decide on that? I can well imagine typing “Steve” in a box, and it seems to me they have performed some sort of search and replace changing nicknames for longnames. Why?

Bizarre.