Fun and games

In case you're wondering where I've been, the last few days were marked by a trip down to London for work, followed by a rather irritating hard drive failure upon my return.

It was quite a spectacular bit of bad timing that. Of course, I'm not sure there's ever really a great time for a hard drive failure, but this one happened to co-incide with the launch of the second phase of my latest project which went pear shaped shortly before the drive keeled over leaving me unable to fix it. Bother.

The nice courier from Dell dropped off a new drive for me this morning and I spent a goodly portion of the rest of the day re-installing software and trying to coax Windows to behave itself. It's still not quite there yet, but it's getting closer. At some point I'm going to have to try and take some sort of inventory to work out just what I've lost. Suffice it to say that my approach to back-ups has been less than rigorous. Work stuff is fine, but a lot of personal stuff has vanished in puff of broken bits and bytes. Ironically I was looking at external drives recently as insurance against precisely this sort of incident. Alas, I hesitated and my data was lost.

Still no point moping about it. What's gone is gone, and at least I can take steps to avoid being hit quite so hard should something like this happen again in the future. It's a blessing of sorts I suppose, albeit of a bitter flavour...