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Garages
Henry goes to the doctor’s – a different one!
Data retrieval – or not
Yesterday, Colin said that I should try burning an Ubuntu 9.04 CD and putting that in my poor broken desktop and running it without changing the computer, with a view to seeing if I could get anything from the hard disc that way. It seemed worth a try.
When we ran the CD, and Ubuntu [...]
Another tale of lost data woe
The hard disc drive is kaput. I have to install a new hard disc drive myself. Oh dear.
Grumble…updates…grumble
Since I updated Wordpress recently, they’ve done something to the layout and everything. I had it just so, and now they’ve gone and mucked it up, and it doesn’t validate as XHTML anymore. If I check the code without what I just typed, there are still errors, and my book blog doesn’t validate [...]
Unpeaceful
My original peace lily is no more, but its propagated version might just survive. Maybe.
Toilet humour
On Friday night, the Bun Shop chucked us out at 11 – so very old-fashioned – but me, Colin and two other couples were up for more drinks, so we went to that classy establishment that used to be quite a nice old pub, The Fountain. Now, it’s full of loud music and da yoof.
Failed
I can now tell you that the recovery disk was not able to restore the system, although it gave it a good whirl. I have no backups anymore due to reformatting the hard disk with them on (the disk’s existence wasn’t being recognised by the restoration program provided by Windows anyway) and so my [...]