21 October 2005

I'm Back! (I think) One day short of 3 months ago, I suffered a hard disk crash on my trusty Thinkpad computer, and this weblog has been offline since then.  I thought I had backup, but, it turns out, not good enough.  Of course, that was right in the middle of our busiest period, and I was unable to spend a lot of time to get everything working again.  After about a week, I was able to download some clever recovery tools and retrieve most of my files off the crashed hard disk, and get the core applications installed on a spare Thinkpad (good thing I had taken advantage of a special offer I saw in the window of a local elctronics store - a genuine IBM/Lenovo Thikpad R50e for 600 Euros).  Since then I have acquired a new 60GB hard drive, and a few other bits and pieces, and bit by bit getting everything back and running.  I made one abortive attempt to get Radio Userland back up, but it kept crashing, so I backed off until today, when I apparently I did it successfully - it has not crashed yet! I am moritified to notice below that my last posting was on June 4.  That is miserable.  I promise that now I seem to have got it up and running again, and that our season is almost over (10 days ago), but it is a school break in the UK, so it will be a busy 10 days), that I will revert to the original purpose of this blog, which was to do more writing, and record my impressions about various aspects of our lives.  Coming soon! 5:27:46 PM    comment []