Sunday, August 20, 2006

well what can i say... technology now hates me.

add that on a list of things that seemingly never ends, and were starting to see why i get so frustrated about life. a week ago, my hard drive failed. i get this wonderful blue screen; and before i can even read it, the drive starts clicking and chirping, to the point windows locks up. so i let it sit. monday morning, i wake up, boot it up with the intention of finding out what was going on, and to prepare to back up stuff. its loads fine. i leave it up and take a shower before work, to come back and find its powered off automatically. upon rebooting, i get this screeching sound ripping at me. the drive is dead. and so with it, went my windows installation and programs... but more importantly my photographs from the past 5 years or so, all of my research and papers from college, plus a chunk of music. gone. so while i felt obligated to go get a new drive, and start from scratch, my mind lingers to that data i lost. appearantly some companies on the internet do specialize on retreiving data from these types of scenarios.... the problem is... they charge $400 and on up to $3,000 to recover a single drive. i just cant afford that. and honestly, im sure none of that information is worth $4, let alone $400. but it really did upset me. im holding on to the drive for now, i suppose data cant get any more corrupted if it just sits on a shelf for awhile.

the list now stands as...

women.
most family members.
money.
gainful employment.
copiers.
fuel efficiency.
cysts.
technology.


sigh.