Last week all owners of a 30GB Zune woke up to an unpleasant surprise. On Wednesday, December 31 around 12:00am all 30GB Zunes rebooted and froze at the startup screen. Reports of a mass Zune suicide or a Zune-pocalypse spread rampant across the web as the strange but widespread bug plagued literally EVERY 30GB Zune on the planet. The culprit? The Zune firmware seemed to be hit with the leap year bug. Last Wednesday was the 366th day of the year and unless the firmware was programed to handle this exception (which it wasn’t) the devices simply wound up imploding on themselves. The most confusing part of this whole debacle isn’t that the bug was so easy to catch but that Microsoft’s official statement regarding the issue merely asked all Zune users to wait 24 hours, until the new year arrived, and all Zune’s would automatically be OK. Of course, this did fix the problem but it still left the entire world’s supply of 1st generation Zunes totally lifeless for an entire day due to a very simple programming oversight. We’re still waiting to see what condolences Microsoft will offer its userbase (hopefully in the form of MS points) but we aren’t holding our breath. Bottomline, I love my Zune but I was left frustrated and dissapointed in the events of last week.