Wednesday, May 1, 2002
The Very Long Night of Sam Kleinman
Posted by Tycho Morgan in "THOUGHT" @ 06:59 PM
I hope all have noticed that I haven’t been around this site much recently; the only thing worse than being someone no one knows, is not being missed or even noticed when you are gone. In any case, for my own piece of mind I’ll assume that you all have noticed that I haven’t been around and that you all care what has happened to me.
It all started two weeks ago. One morning my usually stable computer with Windows 2000 Professional inexplicably crashed. I had to get on with my day so I left it, and I didn’t think of it much and completely forgot about it because of the hour, and other commitments that I had that day. When I got home it wouldn’t boot up at all. It would freeze at the end of the first progressing bar (the one in black and white, no pictures that just says “Starting Windows” above it). I consulted with a number of people: a lot of people had no clue and just wished me luck, some people told me it was a fragged disk, others suggested that it was a problem with the installation, and others still suggested that it was a problem with the hardware. Since I can’t get the Windows setup disk to work, and the hard drive is on NTFS, I don’t have anyway of further diagnosing the problem. A few short days latter I pronounced the darned thing dead. So it looks like I’m going to have to get a new computer, which I was really hopping to push back at least another year or two (Writing isn’t the most lucrative profession after all). In the mean time, however long that is, I have a laptop that is slower than what I’m used to, but it’ll have to do until I can get a new computer.
If that weren’t interesting enough, there’s more! Right about the time this all happened CollectiveArts moved to another sever and Content Management System (CMS). So I was there I was, stuck, redoing more of the pages of that site than I had ever intended, installing an unknown and foreign CMS, and creating a full set of templates using a system I had no experience with. The end result is a site with even better dynamic content, a fully functional mobile site with a mazingo channel, less headache for me in the end, and new division for columns, in addition to a number of other things. It was tough to pull off, but I’m glad to have finally gotten it all done.
This only really matters if you care about—or remember—me and what I’ve been up to. If you only care about Pocket PCs and related stuff you probably didn’t like me anyway--that was a joke, if you didn’t get it, please don't blame/hurt me, just mutter this guy is nutty and move on to the next post. I will tell you that I’ve posted a review of the Jornada Stowaway Keyboard on CollectiveArts’ Tech Musings. I’m also writing a series of articles for Palm Power Magazine on eBooks and related issues, the first of which will debut in the may issue when ever they release it. eBooks are a fairly neutral topic, and I tend to be platform neutral terms anyway, so it might be of interest to Pocket PC Thoughts readers.
So that’s where I’ve been. How about you?
It all started two weeks ago. One morning my usually stable computer with Windows 2000 Professional inexplicably crashed. I had to get on with my day so I left it, and I didn’t think of it much and completely forgot about it because of the hour, and other commitments that I had that day. When I got home it wouldn’t boot up at all. It would freeze at the end of the first progressing bar (the one in black and white, no pictures that just says “Starting Windows” above it). I consulted with a number of people: a lot of people had no clue and just wished me luck, some people told me it was a fragged disk, others suggested that it was a problem with the installation, and others still suggested that it was a problem with the hardware. Since I can’t get the Windows setup disk to work, and the hard drive is on NTFS, I don’t have anyway of further diagnosing the problem. A few short days latter I pronounced the darned thing dead. So it looks like I’m going to have to get a new computer, which I was really hopping to push back at least another year or two (Writing isn’t the most lucrative profession after all). In the mean time, however long that is, I have a laptop that is slower than what I’m used to, but it’ll have to do until I can get a new computer.
If that weren’t interesting enough, there’s more! Right about the time this all happened CollectiveArts moved to another sever and Content Management System (CMS). So I was there I was, stuck, redoing more of the pages of that site than I had ever intended, installing an unknown and foreign CMS, and creating a full set of templates using a system I had no experience with. The end result is a site with even better dynamic content, a fully functional mobile site with a mazingo channel, less headache for me in the end, and new division for columns, in addition to a number of other things. It was tough to pull off, but I’m glad to have finally gotten it all done.
This only really matters if you care about—or remember—me and what I’ve been up to. If you only care about Pocket PCs and related stuff you probably didn’t like me anyway--that was a joke, if you didn’t get it, please don't blame/hurt me, just mutter this guy is nutty and move on to the next post. I will tell you that I’ve posted a review of the Jornada Stowaway Keyboard on CollectiveArts’ Tech Musings. I’m also writing a series of articles for Palm Power Magazine on eBooks and related issues, the first of which will debut in the may issue when ever they release it. eBooks are a fairly neutral topic, and I tend to be platform neutral terms anyway, so it might be of interest to Pocket PC Thoughts readers.
So that’s where I’ve been. How about you?
