Since my wayward youth extravagances at London night clubs hit a hiatus, Friday nights aren’t the glitter and neon affairs they used to be. That isnt to say they aren’t full of fun and frolics, just not the hedonistic hightimes that some get up to. Last Friday inparticular was a case in hand.
I sat down in front of the home laptop and thought about being highly creative with the software on offer. However, I got no further than the power button. I was greeted with a ‘can’t boot’ error that I knew wasn’t good. After trying various things it seemed I had unwittingly deleted too much of what windows needed to start.
So, a quick trip to the bios to change the boot sequence, a quick rummage in the DVD pile to find the recovery discs and then the wait as windows reinstalled. I didn’t lose anything important due to backing up but it is the time it takes to put back the programs and get the system back to where you want it that takes the time.
But that wasn’t all the digital fun I had over the weekend. When I logged into my various self-hosted websites I found that I had lost the sidebars. Losing anything online is foolish but when you know that the mistake is yours, and it is down to some piece of coding somewhere, your heart sinks. So off I toddle into a mass of php, css and html. I find the problem after one or two abortive attempts, fix it and feel strangely proud – after all it was my mistake in the first place.
So, what am I thankful for this week in no order?:
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It sounds like your careful backing up and filing of the recovery disks saved the day! Well done!