When Computers Go Bad
Tuesday, October 28, 2003Windows threw a wobbly when I was away, which led to me having to blearily re-install it on Sunday (though thankfully I’d already set up the computer with all my data stored on separate drives so no need to spend hours doing backups). I also remembered to back up all my old email – I’ve kept every one I’ve received since February 1999.
So I thought I’d been quite clever until it occurred to me I forgot to export my address book, so I have lost hundreds of email addresses. Please get in touch so I can re-add you, thus saving myself from communication meltdown!
(And yes, I’ve already been told I should be using Linux…)
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So you’re another email squirrel? Nobody else seems to understand why I keep virtually every (non-spam) email I’m sent. I can’t understand how anyone can ever delete them.
Gareth
on October 28th, 2003
Well, if you’ve already been told to use Linux, then you should already have been told to buy a Mac, too.I only do these things to wind you up…
tom
on October 28th, 2003
Either of which is bad advice, and merely evades the point by replacing the [considerable] problems of Windows with those of Mac ‘by far the most expensive mistake I’ve made’ OS and ‘can’t use this unless you really enjoy the command line’ Unix.
We should all go back to scratching things on the walls of caves with flints. All this technology serves only to enslave us all. Except MATLAB, of course.
ben
on October 30th, 2003
You want to use Linux, you do.
Ian
on October 31st, 2003
Have also installed Mandrake now…
Simon
on November 4th, 2003