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Two weeks ago, my computer crashed. I did something stupid – I imported the registry from another machine. Boneheaded thing to do. I was intending to analyze it, was half asleep, double clicked the file, and told it ok – immediately afterward I snapped awake and realized what i had done. I royally screwed things up.
Anyway, I had to restore the computer to it’s “fresh off the line” state – i never made backups (another boneheaded move). I’ve been fighting with it ever since. She’s almost back to normal though – and perhaps a bit better. I still had my old PC in storage, so I brought it back to life and copied things over. I’m not missing a whole lot – just two months of chats, and any other “personal” information that GDS leaves local – most of my other info hadn’t changed, or was available in a cached form on Google’s servers.
This accident has also afforded me the time to go back through my files again, and reorganize my directory structure. I’m a nut for archiving and organization of media. I really think I should give up on my IT dreams as a career, leave them as a hobby, and work as a librarian.
Anyway, I installed a few extras, one being a feed reader (if you haven’t gathered that – I’ve been taking advantage of the publishing capabilities for my LJ, so that I can repost interesting stories). I prefer to get my news online anyway. The ability of getting “personalized” news is better than the one size fits all that print and television has to offer. (Not to mention that we just cut the cable out, and we’re too cheap to get a subscription to the paper.)
Well, I’m starting to grow tired of writing, so I believe that I’ll stop here, and go on to sipping my coffee, and reading the news.