Under my fingertips are the soft and familiar keys of the PowerBook keyboard. They are as smooth and soft as they can get after three years of extensive use. In front of me is the slightly messy surface of my PowerBook screen. Because of certain design issues, there are some soft keyboard imprints on the surface. It all makes the screen feel a bit more like a slightly less than perfect piece of paper. Not a sheet of paper, more a piece, really...
Underneath these familiar surfaces, around this familiar and so friendly user interface of Movable Type is a freshly furnished virtual space, furnished nicely by Apple... It is a fresh installation of os X... Jaguar, 10.2.6... nothing personal really... I have tried moving some of the sensitive data to a backup disk, folder by folder... just hoping the dead drive would not hit that corrupted sector again, flip out, drag the entire setup into a crash...
I was able to salvage some work files, some personal files... only to discover yesterday that some of them were randomly corrupted... this will be a longer walk home...
Data loss is fascinating, because it is so clean. The outer shell of things looks really the same. The data deprived environment is a pristine space, happy, ready to be used and furnished.
It is amusing how a few days ago I imagined what it would be like if digital interfaces had some of the qualities of real life objects... riiiight.... here... and then a bit later, I lamented about this unquenched urge to paint...
I will need a little time to readjust, please be patient... can we be?...
Welcome back to the world of Macintosh. Image how it felt for me to be without mine for 4 months. I am still re-adjusting...
I didn't lose any data though... Tough break. Good luck.
Posted by: chris on September 6, 2003 03:23 PMI had no idea that such a large chunk of me depends on this little machine with the apple...
hmm... thank you for understanding...
I had a powerbook G4 stolen a few years ago. I ordered a new one the next day (knowing it would be covered by insurance) and had it fed-exed overnight. Luckily I had all my data backed up (with the exception of a few files).
I hate to admit it (really, I do), but the time between PowerBooks (powerbook lag?) was rather dreary. I was sick, if I recall, and all the things I do when I'm sick, it turns out, are mostly on my computer.
I'm glad to hear you got at least some of your data back.
I hope your new, clean drive purrs like a kitten. BTW, I've heard good things about DiskWarrior. Drive 10 has never done much for me, but there's only so much you can do to a drive with a mechanism failure.
Posted by: resonance on September 6, 2003 06:45 PM