Catching up on stuff
Well, Amazon.ca went and shipped me a replacement Wintersmith without having me forfeit the buy 75$ get $10 back promo certificate eligibility. That was nice of them.
Their replacement came with a dog-eared page, but luckily I hadn't sent the old one back in yet and was able to swap the damaged cover so that it went with the dog-eared innards and pack it all up so that it could go back to Amazon.
Still don't know if I'll actually ever get the coupon, as the other books that made up the $75 minimum have now been thrice-delayed, and apparently they've overlooked my request to add another book onto the lot to make up the minimum again if the others get cancelled.
Other stuff I should mention: remember last February when I was posting about cleaning my room? Yeah. Still not clean, and over a year later.
But I have been sorting things, mostly into empty M & M boxes from the local Costco. These things are amazingly sturdy and well made, with carry-handles, slot-tab fitted stacking, and interior liners. You wouldn't think that choconut-filled candy shells would need that much protection, but there you have it.
Maybe this is the year I finally vacuum. God, I hate wall to wall carpeting.
In the meantime, I've got more sorting to do.
I can't recall if I blogged about it, but over a month ago, the intermittent Firewire issue on the PowerBook seems to have flared up by corrupting my boot partition. (This was when I was booting up from one of the external drives while I was reinstalling the system on the PB.)
Drive Utility says it's some sort of B-tree corruption error, which is apparently non-fixable except by rather expensive recovery software.
Thankfully, I was eventually able to get the partition to mount and grab my personal files off of it, but I have yet to restore the non-essential stuff.
And while I'm speaking of hardware failures leading to data loss, MyRealBox, which for years has hosted one of my primary email accounts[1] and was owned and operated by Novell, turned over the servers to Messaging Architects, who promptly had a hardware failure which ate my mail, along with most of everyone else's.
There doesn't seem to be much missing, as they did set up a kind of buffer for new incoming mail, and shut down IMAP access so that people who were using it would have a chance to backup their mailboxes before the resynch overwrote the contents, which was nice of them, but didn't save me from losing god only knows how much.
At least I still have my most recent backups[2].
I've also got some plans to sort out my hosting and stuff, perhaps move the blogging or at least mirror it on my own space. And I've got a few notions of what to do with all the other blog/journal/accounts I've picked up: use them in a useful way. After all, that other person using my name is still out there, and memetic warfare is probably the most civilized way to handle it, since I don't actually have the power to telepathically make people's heads explode.
[1] At least until I started getting all that picspam, most probably via LiveJournal's leaving my address in plain sight without any munging on my user profile page for a few weeks before I started backtracking every place I'd given that address to lately and found and shut their display default down.
[2] Not recent enough, though. I think I lost at least one message I would have liked to keep.
Their replacement came with a dog-eared page, but luckily I hadn't sent the old one back in yet and was able to swap the damaged cover so that it went with the dog-eared innards and pack it all up so that it could go back to Amazon.
Still don't know if I'll actually ever get the coupon, as the other books that made up the $75 minimum have now been thrice-delayed, and apparently they've overlooked my request to add another book onto the lot to make up the minimum again if the others get cancelled.
Other stuff I should mention: remember last February when I was posting about cleaning my room? Yeah. Still not clean, and over a year later.
But I have been sorting things, mostly into empty M & M boxes from the local Costco. These things are amazingly sturdy and well made, with carry-handles, slot-tab fitted stacking, and interior liners. You wouldn't think that choconut-filled candy shells would need that much protection, but there you have it.
Maybe this is the year I finally vacuum. God, I hate wall to wall carpeting.
In the meantime, I've got more sorting to do.
I can't recall if I blogged about it, but over a month ago, the intermittent Firewire issue on the PowerBook seems to have flared up by corrupting my boot partition. (This was when I was booting up from one of the external drives while I was reinstalling the system on the PB.)
Drive Utility says it's some sort of B-tree corruption error, which is apparently non-fixable except by rather expensive recovery software.
Thankfully, I was eventually able to get the partition to mount and grab my personal files off of it, but I have yet to restore the non-essential stuff.
And while I'm speaking of hardware failures leading to data loss, MyRealBox, which for years has hosted one of my primary email accounts[1] and was owned and operated by Novell, turned over the servers to Messaging Architects, who promptly had a hardware failure which ate my mail, along with most of everyone else's.
There doesn't seem to be much missing, as they did set up a kind of buffer for new incoming mail, and shut down IMAP access so that people who were using it would have a chance to backup their mailboxes before the resynch overwrote the contents, which was nice of them, but didn't save me from losing god only knows how much.
At least I still have my most recent backups[2].
I've also got some plans to sort out my hosting and stuff, perhaps move the blogging or at least mirror it on my own space. And I've got a few notions of what to do with all the other blog/journal/accounts I've picked up: use them in a useful way. After all, that other person using my name is still out there, and memetic warfare is probably the most civilized way to handle it, since I don't actually have the power to telepathically make people's heads explode.
[1] At least until I started getting all that picspam, most probably via LiveJournal's leaving my address in plain sight without any munging on my user profile page for a few weeks before I started backtracking every place I'd given that address to lately and found and shut their display default down.
[2] Not recent enough, though. I think I lost at least one message I would have liked to keep.
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