NYE, Websites, Rock Band, & More Websites

January 1, 2009 · Posted in The Geek, The Magazine, The Web x.y · Comment 

I forgot how much easier it is to populate a website with tedious content when you’re hanging out with friends and shooting the shit while getting work done.

So far today I:

  • Populated the Carnival schedule.
  • Helped Paul help a friend publish her restaurant website.
  • Realized how much I suck at playing rock band.

And I still need to get all the equipment ready for a wedding tomorrow.

The End of my Laptop?

December 19, 2008 · Posted in The Geek · Comment 

A couple of days ago the new hard drive I bought for my laptop died without any warning after only two months. Which was strange because the old drive lasted 5 years and was only taken out because I filled it up.

The replacement drive came in today and I’m going to have my first experience with the Windows Home Server restore. At least the nightly backup started right after I went to bed the last night it was working.

So far it has been running pretty well with only one hiccup: the destination drive needs to be partitioned. Fortunately Microsoft thought ahead and included the disk manager on the restore CD.

The restore finished in about a half hour and duh duh daaa! I’m getting the same error. Time to try something else.

Update: An older backup gave me the same thing. But Ubuntu installed no problem. Go figure…

Update 2: Windows but not via WHS recovery… so much for easy 1 CD recovery feature.

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