It Must Be Murphy’s Law
There is very little other explanation why there have been so many technological failings impacting my life lately. It started with the laptop’s hard drive going bad several weeks ago. At least nothing too important was lost, other than some sent emails and web bookmarks I hadn’t thought to back up.
Around the same time we started having some issues with our back-up desktop computer, where we generally store our music files. This wasn’t really a new problem, but an old one re-occuring that we don’t completely know the cause of. Since there wasn’t really room on our main desktop computer to store all the music files (It nearly filled the hard drive when we had them on there for a while), I don’t have a very easy way to manage my ipod shuffle right now. We got a good deal on a new hard drive for Tony to build a media computer, but that project is taking longer than expected, especially since it just something Tony works on in his spare time.
And, of course Tony’s computer at the office got hacked last week, and all our websites were down for a week. All that was lost was a few pictures that can be restored from a back up DVD we have at home, so that is good news.
Then, rocksiu.com email crashed on Monday…Everything is probably back to normal with that for everyone else, but since I am using a protocal called IMAP that I don’t think anyone else on our server is using…I still have problems I don’t think anyone else is having. Like there is no way to receive new emails except by exiting the email program and then restarting it. And of course since we are talking about Murphey’s Law, it completely figures that the only email messages I am still missing are the ones I absolutely have to have — the ones with Daylights articles attached that I should be editing this week. Mike Biang is trying hard to recover them and I have faith that he will find them…but is just the final annoyance in a string of several weeks of technological foibles.
I am trying to take joy in these trials and I don’t think I am doing too bad a job at it…though I am sure Mike must be getting sick of all my whiny emails… 