Well, it's harmless

Today's game is hitting the "random article" button on Wikipedia and doing light copyedits on some of the articles. Light meaning that I'm looking at spelling and grammar, not fact checking here.

Well, it's harmless

Today's game is hitting the "random article" button on Wikipedia and doing light copyedits on some of the articles. Light meaning that I'm looking at spelling and grammar, not fact checking here.

Computer problems

I'm having some problems with my PC (and may have lost some data, we don't know yet). In the short term, that means I'm sharing cattitude's machine. That in turn means that I won't be on IM (any form thereof), and may not see email quickly.

The telephone is still working (please not after 11 p.m. or before 8 a.m. unless it's an emergency).

At the moment, I don't think I want any gifts higher-tech than a bicycle unless they're serious backup equipment.

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Explanation of the above: I have a new Ipod, which Cattitude got me for my birthday (slightly belated, while we sorted out details of headphones that wouldn't hurt my ears). I set it up this afternoon. The system hung a few times as I tried to rip CDs to the Itunes library, and then I noticed that there was nothing more recent than mid-2004 in my Eudora inbox. Itunes seems to have done something rude to my Eudora mailboxes. Fortunately, Eudora is a cautious program, so all the data was saved, and in fact saved in the format I want it in. Normal service has been restored, and once I've got a couple of sets of current backups, we're going to reinstall Windows, and then make another attempt at installing Itunes.

(I also created new folders labeled "old mail" and "old sent mail" and swept a lot of messages into them. I had a fair number of specific mailboxes already: for specific people, subjects, and mailing lists. But a lot of stuff was just sitting in either "in" or "out." This is no better organized, I just hope it's less likely to be lost in a crash.)

Computer problems

I'm having some problems with my PC (and may have lost some data, we don't know yet). In the short term, that means I'm sharing cattitude's machine. That in turn means that I won't be on IM (any form thereof), and may not see email quickly.

The telephone is still working (please not after 11 p.m. or before 8 a.m. unless it's an emergency).

At the moment, I don't think I want any gifts higher-tech than a bicycle unless they're serious backup equipment.

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Explanation of the above: I have a new Ipod, which Cattitude got me for my birthday (slightly belated, while we sorted out details of headphones that wouldn't hurt my ears). I set it up this afternoon. The system hung a few times as I tried to rip CDs to the Itunes library, and then I noticed that there was nothing more recent than mid-2004 in my Eudora inbox. Itunes seems to have done something rude to my Eudora mailboxes. Fortunately, Eudora is a cautious program, so all the data was saved, and in fact saved in the format I want it in. Normal service has been restored, and once I've got a couple of sets of current backups, we're going to reinstall Windows, and then make another attempt at installing Itunes.

(I also created new folders labeled "old mail" and "old sent mail" and swept a lot of messages into them. I had a fair number of specific mailboxes already: for specific people, subjects, and mailing lists. But a lot of stuff was just sitting in either "in" or "out." This is no better organized, I just hope it's less likely to be lost in a crash.)