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Tuesday 01 January, 2008
#Happy New Year

Back at my desk for the first time in ages. The attic's going to be replastered in the next few days. This is both good, because it should mean I won't finish the day covered in a fine layer of dust, and bad, because I had to move everything into the bedroom next door. The JezUK computing infrastructure isn't especially large these days - couple of boxes, couple of flatscreens, wifi-router-hub, and a linkstation. The total distance moved was about 10 feet. Somehow I managed to kill my keyboard, and for several long panicky minutes it looked like my main box wasn't going to start. First off it fired up fine, but when I realised the keyboard was dead and I plugged in another, it abruptly powered down. And didn't come on. And didn't come on. And didn't come on. And didn't come on. And didn't come on. And didn't come on. And didn't come on. Suddenly, as bitter tears of impotent rage and panic sprung to my eyes, it powered up. Hopefully it won't be quite so horrible when I get to move back.

Ken [e] [w] said My boot drive failed just before Christmas, fortunately my ongoing work and stuff is on another drive (and that's backed up onto yet another drive, and a laptop). After a frantic morning of frankly desperate efforts I recalled I had a backup of this drive also, somewhere. It was about 4 months old, so only shy of a few updates. Whew. Note to self: back this one up more often!

What happened as I powered up the dead drive (to see if I could reformat and eke out some more use)? It fired up with no problems, and has run well since. WTF?

Computers. You can keep 'em.

BTW Happy New Year! [added 2nd Jan 2008]

I have nearly all my work sitting in version control, so I wouldn't especially worried on that score. It was more the time - fixing the machine, rebuilding the install and all that stuff - that I was worrying about. I have a job, a deadline, and not a lot of wiggle. Let's not dwell on the might have beens :)

[added 2nd Jan 2008]

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