In-sewer-ants

My laptop has died. While trying to view some photos the poor thing’s hard drive made that noise. That sound of some very precisely manufactured pieces of hardware getting too close to each other. The kind of sound that causes all IT technicians to go pale as gigabytes of data simply cease to be. Yes, I think my laptop’s hard drive just had a head crash.

Still, not to worry, it’s insured and still under warranty. On Friday a courier will take my poor laptop away to be repaired. 24H support lines are handy.

No doubt it’ll come back infested with XP, and my Gentoo CDs are at home. This will be a pain in the arse.

I have a backup, but that’s at home too. It’s also a few months old. All that OpenGL code has gone. As have some photos. I think it’s time to buy a removable hard drive.

This is being written on my Tapwave Zodiac, and I’d just like to say how awful its version of Graffiti is. It might be the touch screen since the onscreen keyboard isn’t much better. The thing keeps misreading taps.

Tags: backup, Broken, Event, Hardware