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Sep. 7th, 2011 01:39 pmLast week I had a hard drive die on me. There were two "luckilies" that made this situation much better than it could have been. First, the warranty was still working and my company (HP) actually provided decent service. They made it easy for me to ship the machine in and got it back to me in just under a week. I am looking to buy a desktop in the next year or two, and this experience has made it pretty likely I'll stick with their company.
The other luckily: All of my important files - including all of my writings and a draft of my conference paper - were backed up on DropBox, a cloud file-storage system. I did lose all of my videos and about half my music, but that's replaceable. (Speaking of replacing, I'd like music recommendations. More on that in a minute.)
The repaired machine arrived safely today. I have reinstalled by Nintendo game emulator, Office, and Chrome. Office was the worst; turned out I had a key but no disk so I had to download it, and Microsoft makes it practically impossible to find the link for anything other than the current version of the software. Plus they wanted money to even talk to them; finally got through by using the sales chat online agent. I even got all of my email accounts and RSS feeds added back to Windows Mail. So far it seems to work okay.
This last week I have felt very disorganized online. I've had a lot going on (start of the semester, conference and all) but also was stuck on a five-year-old laptop, using web interface. I know I didn't reply to a lot of blog comments and probably won't get caught up. I'll try to do better in the future, though. I also cut back on my blog feeds, since I found I was reading too much related to politics and religious news, which (contrary to what I post about) isn't what I most like thinking about. What goes in your mind tends to come out of it as well, I guess.
I also wanted to ask for music recommendations. As I said, I lost a good bit of my music library. Plus I've got a long airplane flight next week and would love to fill up my MP3 player. The songs I did have saved are below the cut. Any recommendations?
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The other luckily: All of my important files - including all of my writings and a draft of my conference paper - were backed up on DropBox, a cloud file-storage system. I did lose all of my videos and about half my music, but that's replaceable. (Speaking of replacing, I'd like music recommendations. More on that in a minute.)
The repaired machine arrived safely today. I have reinstalled by Nintendo game emulator, Office, and Chrome. Office was the worst; turned out I had a key but no disk so I had to download it, and Microsoft makes it practically impossible to find the link for anything other than the current version of the software. Plus they wanted money to even talk to them; finally got through by using the sales chat online agent. I even got all of my email accounts and RSS feeds added back to Windows Mail. So far it seems to work okay.
This last week I have felt very disorganized online. I've had a lot going on (start of the semester, conference and all) but also was stuck on a five-year-old laptop, using web interface. I know I didn't reply to a lot of blog comments and probably won't get caught up. I'll try to do better in the future, though. I also cut back on my blog feeds, since I found I was reading too much related to politics and religious news, which (contrary to what I post about) isn't what I most like thinking about. What goes in your mind tends to come out of it as well, I guess.
I also wanted to ask for music recommendations. As I said, I lost a good bit of my music library. Plus I've got a long airplane flight next week and would love to fill up my MP3 player. The songs I did have saved are below the cut. Any recommendations?
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