Well, obviously I’m back up and running after a, relatively, uneventful reformat and rebuild of my system. Whee, it’s nice to have a clean system that is functioning at it’s best performance! The rebuild is a pain in the but, however, the end result is SO worth it. Last night I was on call for Hospice – and it was a crazy night all the way through until this morning. I ended up going out …
Archive for October, 2004
Reformat Ready
I decided to do the reformat/rebuild tonight. Since tonight I’m on call for Hospice, it makes no sense for me to get deep into working on my many projects, I figured now would be a good time. Checklist: Back up successful and burned to CD All driver CD’s are present (monitor, sound card, video card, motherboard, etc) Took a screen shot of my Product ID #’s for various registered software (didn’t trust myself to write …
Outsource-XP
In preparing my machine for a reformat and rebuild – I am, of course, backing up everything. If anyone using Outlook 2003 has tried the import/export of your accounts, rules, sigs and general settings – you know that it’s not as easy as it was in previous versions of Outlook. During a search I was doing to optimize my back up in XP Pro 2002 – I stumbled across a nice little piece of shareware …
Love/Hate
I have a well defined love/hate relationship with my computer. On one hand, I love the thing. It’s my greatest hobby from talking with my friends online, keeping in touch with family and friends via email, running my business, keeping me organized and teaching me new things. On the other hand – it’s the dependence issue, so when things go wrong . . I begin to really realize how very dependent I am upon this …
socially, me