Gah! My home PC is dead. As a stone. Choir invisible. Lovely plumage the Norwegian Blue. Etc. Etc.
This leaves me in a horrible state of techno-angst. No Final Draft. No iPlayer. No podcasts. And all the screenwriting work I've ever done, I can't get at. I may have to revise my "backups are for wimps" policy. It now seems a bit macho to have been playing chicken with entropy.
It's probably just the power-unit going on the blink, but I am a hardware dunce and am not sure I want to risk someone as inept as me fitting a new one. And then it might not be the power unit. What if the hard drive is wiped? Gah!
I can update the blog from work, so expect more entries here until I get things fixed. This is my only portal left to the screenwriting world.
Actually, this gives me an idea for a story about over-reliance on technology, and the brave struggle of an inept character to live without the internet. But I'm going to have to write it in a pad. Like last century. Gah!
Where to Find Me at MCM
3 weeks ago
1 comment:
It's not very cool to endorse backing-up, but after the problem being brought home to me when my laptop died some years ago, I've never been without an external hard drive. Last week, my external drive power supply failed, which prompted me to buy a second external drive! The first still works, just needs the power cord replacing, but the fear of being back-up-less was too much!
Post a Comment