Surviving the Crash

As everybody who plays this incessant game of type type type knows, the worst feeling in the game is when your system locks up and you get that blue screen that says fatal error (CE091106) in the middle of your boot. You scramble through the pile of disks looking for the one that says recovery, but it is not where you thought it was squirrelled away. OpSys reload time. When was the last time you backed up important files and how much work did you really lose? Was that character in the game that your son invested 15o hours that important to him? you know, the son generally attached to the video game, who thinks using the computer productively is that particular game. How many websites did you have collected in favorites for future reference that will never be visited again? And what about figuring howdt all the url's for the regular blog gang?

Yes - it did crash yesterday - the black screen that says your system has been contaminate with a virus and the aforementioned blue screen was fortunately not on the first morning use, when real productivity occurs. Dr. Lenny stores important files on the server, not at home and doing financial records by hand keeps one's math in practice. Trusting a computer to pay bills is like, well, trusting a government to protect your interests. Not a good idea.

The net effect is that i lost a lot of things that i didn't need and maybe a month or six weeks worth of personal photos. Muchly ones that were not good enough for web use. Having found a better center, i didn't let it bother me, as it would have a few months ago. But for the record - it never hurts to be anal about backing things up. I'll miss my moria game - it was an old, old version i have on floppy with no disk reader and the new stuff off the net plays slightly differently, but i hadn't seen my character in weeks. Crash go the chariots - sit back and enjoy the spectacle.

After all, the next xrash you hear may be the entire amerikun conomy.