Sick with flu
I have been out of comission for almost a week. I’ve finally regained my health and then my little kid gets sick. Its a bad omen since he was the first one to get it meaning we are already in the next cycle. I hope we won’t catch it again.
Quaranteene protocol initiated.
Laptop survives coffee spill
Yesterday I did it…
After lunch I got myself a nice cup of black coffee as I always do. Actually I almost always have a cup of coffee when at the office. (I typically drink about 6-7 cups during the day). As I reached over the desk to get a stack of papers I knocked over the coffee cup. About half a cup’s worth of coffee spilled directly onto my Dell XPS M1710 laptop. With lightning reflexes I didn’t knew I had I swooped up the laptop, turned it upsides down and powered it off and ejected the battery.
Keeping it upside down, the poor laptop was dripping coffee. I wiped the worst of it and then brought it downstairs to the support department. The engineer just laughed at me and asked: "So this is your way of getting a new computer?"
This morning Support came back with the laptop – it reeks of coffee but it works like a charm! My lightning rescue apparently paid off! I’ve improved my backup settings… no longer do I have all the important files on the hard drive but on the network. Phew.
Sad thing is… now I have to wait a year before getting a new office computer.
Comments now moderated
After several “Buy WOW Gold” comments I’ve turned on comment moderation. I just can’t stand MMO gold sellers.
Reset, rename and restart
A new name on the blog and voila it has been resurrected from the place of abandoned blogs. With Hexapuma’s World I am no longer covering WOW since I don’t play it anymore. However there is a ton of other things I do and obsess over.
One of the games I currently enjoy is EVE-Online and I am in the process of launching into a full pirate career. EVE is one of those fantastic open ended type of MMO where you can actually become anything you fancy. Play the game your own way. Of course this means that it is full of roads leading to very bad situations that can be very hard if not time consuming to get out of. Going pirate is one of those roads…
