Failure, Excuses, Etc.

Posted by Rob Walker on September 23, 2006
Posted Under: rw

So, about a week ago, the hard drive on my main computer began to fail. This was unpleasant. While it was interesting, in a way, to spend a lot of time waiting around at TekServe observing other people whose various pieces of digital technology had melted down in one catastrophic way or another, I’d prefer not to have done it. Anyway, while all that was going on, it wasn’t really practical for me to deal with Murketing.com.

Yesterday I got my computer back, with a new hard drive, and it looks like I’ve more or less completed the process of re-integrating many gigs of backed up data. I’m a little behind on email, and I may have lost a few messages, if you happen to be wondering why I haven’t replied to something you’ve sent me, etc. Feel free to re-send if you like. Meanwhile I’m returning this site to regularly scheduled programming now; in a minute I’ll post last week’s consumed.

Go back up your data.

Further diversion may be found at MKTG Tumblr, and the Consumed Facebook page.

Reader Comments

ooh. sorry to hear about that. I assume that you’re using an Apple..in which case I’d recommend using SuperDuper to do backups. I’ve had three catastrophic, heart-rending crashes in my lifetime, all of which resulted in varying degrees of irreplaceable files vanishing in a puff of ozone.

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Written By ryan mcmanus on September 23rd, 2006 @ 11:53 am

Interesting about SuperDuper, thanks for that. That’s actually the software the person at Tekserve mentioned when I was quizzing on this subject. I’m lucky, though, I pretty much saved all my data. But it’s still a huge pain…

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Written By murketing on September 28th, 2006 @ 11:32 am
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