Main computer crashed

Opinion, WordPress, blog, software, writing

For reasons unknown, with about 50 GB of files. So while it runs self checks, reloads and re installs, I’m on an ancient laptop left thinking about the immortality of the crab - means … just that, but may be found on Wikipedia with this Illustration y Greg Williams and generously licensed under the Creative Commons “Share Alike” attribution.

First (well for a long time now MS Word wasn’t loading properly, it would attempt to install itself on opening (a fragment of a previous installation, which in turn was provided by the machine’s vendors, turned out to be pirated and these good people went out of business before I could claim). Then Images stopped loading, this WordPress setup began crumbling on (on that computer, so it was OK on the server), and it began burbling like a coffee percolator. Backed up what I could ( a lot of stuff, with AutoCad drawings and pictures too). Now reinstalling as I test this old backup with something better than Lorem impsum or ‘ thinking about the immortality of the crab, a Spanish idiom for day dreaming and blank mindedness in general. Surprisingly, the expression is commemorated by Spanish Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno but expresses the state of mind one is in when watching Windows load. Next stop: Linux and Ubuntu, Open Office now: With writing assignments pending and no word processor program other than notepad.txt.  Handrwiting of course, i do most outlining and brainstorming on large spiral notebooks. The archive of those is two pillars on the floor, at teetering height. So OK, back on the main computer now,  back to work. Tomorrow i guess, it’s late now.

Q

peterknight @ April 13, 2008