This afternoon, I decided to damn the torpedoes and spend pretty much all my spare money on a huge 2-terabyte external hard drive to strengthen the security of my computer data. I could not afford to keep only one complete copy of all my back-ups, because I know all too well that external drives can fail without warning ( Read more... )

I was pouring coffee grains into the proper jar - or so I thought. I looked up, and saw the coffee jar, still empty.
I'd poured half a jar-ful of coffee into a half-empty jar of drinking chocolate powder.

...has been an utter demoralizing failure. Either I don't understand Blogger software, or it is no damn good for anything a bit text-heavy. I completely lost two days' hard work. It was a bloody good article, too, and to rewrite anything a second time is, to me, an agonizing experience.

It's snowing heavily under a driving wind. Winter is back, and according to the weatherman it will be around for the next few days.

Last night my central heating, after working properly for less than a week in the last three months, broke down again. In the fuckin' coldest night of the winter so far. When I found out, I started screaming and smashing everything I could lay my hands on. An exaggerated reaction? After having three months and my bank account wrecked by the ( Read more... )

...has been awful. My computers have gone, replaced by an uncertain and virus-ridden item which three sweeps of AVG have not managed to altogether clean out. The rest has not been much better. Gawd, I need a friend. How's the market in huggles looking ( Read more... )

My software went and I had to rebuild it, losing in the process every bit of memory in my computer. Luckily, most of my research work and personal archives are safe on another computer and a lot of discs, but I lost every bit of my libraries and everything else in it. I am not happy, obviously.

The cyber-stalking note referred to in my previous post turned up as the cherry on the cake of one of the most miserable days I had in months. As you know, I have been moving my books out of storage and into my flat. This, as a rule, involves a couple of daily journeys to the storage warehouse - which is a long way away - with a suitcase or a ( Read more... )

I have had a fire in the kitchen in my flat. I was not in danger, but the damage was serious, and repairing will cost me a lot of money.