Deliriously happy in Houston...

[alexpgp]

Tonight, I decided to indulge in something I'd been wanting to do for a while. I set up my cam in the simul booth, and set my laptop to run Webcam32 to capture images of myself at work.

So there I am, doing what I do when suddenly, I notice my laptop - which had been working without a glitch - is in Safe Mode.

Uh-oh.

I shut it down and start it up. I get the Windows ME splash screen and then... n-o-t-h-i-n-g.

While I'm thinking of what to do, the machine spontaneously reboots. I get the splash screen again, then the screen that asks me what I want to do. I head off to Safe Mode again and repeat the process. As the machine shuts down again and I press the power button, I wonder what I'm going to do if this process repeats.

No for long, though, as this time, Windows comes back. <relief>

Call me superstitious, but I think I shall refrain from running Webcam32, at least until after I print out my tax forms tomorrow.

BTW, I hit Surveyor's web site earlier and learned that all employees have been laid off as of a week ago, and the company is for sale. Their discussion boards also indicate a significant number of less-than-deliriously-happy users. Ye gods.

* * *The Stout (as in Rex, not Guinness) was excellent. Triple Jeopardy is a set of three novelettes set sometime in the early 50s, and even though I've not read much of the Nero Wolfe canon, the atmosphere wasn't hard to pick up. It was refreshing, too, to have a detective's sidekick - Archie Goodwin - portrayed as something more than someone with whom The Detective could have a conversation.

Work calls.

Cheers...

Comments

[days-unfolding.livejournal.com]

Back stuff up!!!! That's exactly what happened to me when I had Windows ME installed on my laptop. Mine didn't come back, though, and it told me to uninstall Windows ME, and then the uninstall process hung, leaving me with no operating system.

You probably have a boot disk though. I didn't-;)

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Backups are backups. There undoubtedly must be a witty formulation of Murphy's Law that comments on the relationship between criticality of files, when they are created, and when they are or are not backed up.

Personally, I've only known one person who was anal^H^H^H^Hmeticulous enough to back up every file he ever created.

Cheers...