My trip to California next week has come at what I believe is a good time. I could use some time away again. I really should be traveling more often, in fact, just to keep some sanity and perspective. Earlier this year, I had thought that by this time I would have visited more people more often than I have.
When I come back after Thanksgiving, I’ll have to work on that.
Heavy use of computers may be linked to the development of a progressive eye disease, researchers claim.
A study in Japan has found that staring at a screen could be related to glaucoma, which can lead to blindness.
The study links computer use with glaucoma. After sitting at a computer almost all day long at work and coming home to often spend more hours on the computer, I should pay attention to this. At my last eye exam, I was told I had 20/20 vision, but that’s a step down. More than ten years ago, the doctors said I had better than 20/20 vision. I don’t want glasses or contacts, much less a disease.
I signed up for a MoveOn get-together this weekend. On Monday, I’m leaving for California for Thanksgiving. I have a new database project to work on at work. The Mix CD Exchange is gathering momentum. All in all, not bad. Now all I need is a new job and more money so I can afford to make it to the end of the year. :>
Just a few minutes ago, I added a new themed mix to the Mix CD Exchange. I also did a major redesign of the site.
Who rocks the house? I do. Close to everything on my crashed 200GB hard drive is salvageable. It took some time to get it set up, including having to reinstall Windows on my newer 250GB drive, hacking the Registry to allow large hard drives before upgrading to WinXP SP2, using the DISKPART utility in conjunction with the Drive Manager console program, and trying my best not to give in during the entire process and just formatting the drive, losing a whole bunch of junk.
The good news is I saved the receipt for the crashed hard drive, and I spent an extra $20 for a two year extended warranty. I’m going to make the $20 worth it this weekend by taking the drive back and getting a replacement. That is, of course, after I’m done copying everything I can salvage from the old drive to the newer one.
Next possibly good movie to see: Kinsey. It’s already getting interesting notice in the news.
My primary hard drive in my desktop computer crashed. I’m not sure exactly what the cause was, but I’m leaning towards the SHOUTcast station I was running. A few days ago, I moved the player and encoder to my laptop, which was reading all the music from the desktop over ethernet. The stream was then connecting through the ethernet to the desktop, where I was running the broadcast part of the software and where all incoming connections were directed. I think it was just too much disk activity.
I started the salvage late last night, and I was able to fix the hardware level problem. So far, all I know is that the Windows XP System directory was corrupted. Hopefully I didn’t lose much else, since I don’t have back-ups.
Considering I keep my financial information on my laptop and email on my webserver, I’m probably okay. It’s possible I could lose a large amount (about 100 GB of a 200 GB drive) of music files which have taken a long time to download or digitize. I had already moved all my video projects to a second hard drive (a 250 GB drive), so that will most likely be unaffected.
I also had many, many software packages that took a long time to acquire. I should have backed those up onto DVD+R. I’ll update when I’m at home and can see what’s remaining. Luckilly, I know I haven’t lost anything “important.” My desktop was reaching the time for the one-year Windows XP wipe, anyway.
Unrelated: Today’s search query: What are the effect of Illiteracy
I suppose I should welcome all the visitors I’m getting from BlogExplosion. Thanks for coming and I hope you’ll stay for more than thirty seconds.
BlogExplosion is a weblog “browser” that credits you for every blog you view for thirty seconds, enabling other people to visit you. Thus, your credits are depleted and you have to view more blogs.
I’ve seen a few recurring trends. Everything else, like mine, is just pretty average. Interestingly, there is definitely a lack of techie blogs in the BlogExplosion system. Maybe those guys aren’t concerned with getting random people to visit their websites for thirty seconds and never come back.
A coworker came back from Hong Kong this week and brought back with him Banana Pocky. Yum.
By the way, we are now up to two mixes on the CD Mix Exchange. I’ll add some more new features to the site this week. Join the site to add your mix for the first theme, Mundane Activities.