It’s a hard drive is gonna fall
It’s like something out of Poe, a dry clacking sound that freezes the blood, the very characteristic sound of a hard drive that has just up and died. Much follows: a computer that won’t restart until the deceased disc has been swapped out, a long menu of re-installations from the operating system on up, a web-site and blog that for a few days must go hang while we — skipping from Poe to Macbeth — must sleep no more.
And how was your week?
If you’ve been wondering what happened to the Daily Knowledge quiz questions for the past few days, or why there hasn’t been a new quiz this week, there’s the answer. But things are back pretty much to normal, life is once more on an even footing, and we’re considering yet again whether it might not be a good idea to have a fully synchronized back-up of our main working computer. Certainly the last few days would have been easier, but on the other hand there’s nothing like the celerity of a newly-installed system whose registry hasn’t been clogged up with years of unremitting use.
