Oh, The Humanity

Most of you probably don’t know this, but I have a laptop and desktop that I use for work. In the past, my desktop has been my primary PC that I use all the time. As for the laptop, I used it for working at home, when I’m on call after hours, traveling, etc… Anyways, for the past few days I’ve had this nagging feeling that I need to just make my laptop my primary PC…so I did.

I spent an hour or so yesterday moving my desktop to the other side of my office and demoting it to a lowly test PC. Not to mention the fact I had to setup my docking station for my laptop and rerun all my cables. ALL of them. And, as my luck would have it, my network cable was an inch short…so I had to make a longer one. But that isn’t the “funny” part. When I got around to booting up my desktop, it came up with an error message: “Disk I/O Error: Could not load ntloader.exe. Please resintall that file.” That just so happens to be one of those files needed to make Windows 2000 work.

So I raised my soldering iron high and said, “By the power of A+ Certification…I have the power!!” Ok, not really. I figured that in the 8 or so feet I moved my desktop, something may have come loose on the inside. I check things out on the inside and everything appears to be tight. Just to be sure, I unhooked everything and put it all back. I boot that sucker up again…same thing. Ok, time to get serious. I take that hard drive out and add it to another PC, just to see if I could get Windows to read it (and not boot from it). Score that got it! However, when I try to read some of the files on the questionable hard drive, I get this error message, “Data Error: cyclic redundancy check.” That’s the equivalent of your hard drive giving you the finger.

At this time you are probably wondering why I’m going through all that trouble when I’ve got a perfectly good laptop. True, true, but I’ve got a ton of files that I need to copy over. Without making this post the longest in history, I was able to recover about 90% of my data. I was most concerned about getting all of my college projects off (you know, all 6 years worth) and I did. However, and this is a mucho huge however, I lost all my Dilbert cartoons. It’s a sad day.

In closing, in the ten or so years that I’ve worked with computers, that’s the first time I’ve had my hard drive crash. Woe is me.

I couldn’t believe eBay could sum up marriage in one auction.

Super Mario Flash.

Scooby Doo wins again!!

And speaking of sad eBay auctions.

Hostile Skies.

Boy sticks his tounge to frozen pole…what could possibly go wrong?