"to see the world in a grain of sand..."
Rain, cool, wet…If I had wings I try it somewhere else too! But these geese are smart and leaving early this year. I watched for a half hour as they gathered forces and eventually fled. Boy, it seems like I just saw my first one of the year a few days ago…
Time, like the birds, does indeed fly.
That lightning – great photo, bad shock. It totally killed my computer. I spent the better part of Saturday running here and there trying to resolve the broken beast’s problems – after 4 hours the upshot was that I needed a new computer.
Here’s what you gotta know about protecting your machine and your data.
Did you know that those surge protectiors – even the expensive ones – are really one-time use devices? If they do stop the bolt from the blue, they won’t stop it a second time around. After the fact, the manufacturer kindly let me know.
Did you know that even though you back up your data (I have mine on 2 redundant drives and an online back up service – Carbonite), created by Windows XP, if you need a new computer you’re forced to use Vista – you can’t buy XP anymore. But Vista won’t play nice with XP drives!!!! It’s taken me the rest of the weekend to open about 6 client folders, there are hundred of images in each and each time I tried to open one I got “you don’t have permission to access this file…” “You aren’t the owner of this file…””You need to elevate this action…” Yikes – evey file I have is now so locked down I can’t even move it to a USB stick! REALLY!!!!
I am appalled that they can actually sell this shite. Bill Gates you are an evil evil man!
I won’t even talk about the joy I had trying to reinstall my software…
Well, sorry for the rant. But take heed if you think you can painlessly upgrade to a new computer (for whatever reason) because your old XP HD is still working fine so you can just plop it into the new case, or add it as a USB drive. hahahahaha. Not gonna happen.