Monday, May 25, 2009

In Memory - Lost Words Virtual and Cyber

My Dell laptop. Six years of faithful service. This morning booting resulted in nothing but a grey, quiet screen. No signs or symptoms of impending demise, just a peaceful death.

Something nudged at me this Saturday, though; I did a complete backup onto my external hard-drive.

Gotta listen to those gut feelings.

ALSO IN MEMORY - my original blog. Google gobbled it up one day, with no warning. Apparently old code, still lurking in my html and counting away my doomsday unbeknownst to me, was the mal-icious bearer. Reimported much here - looks familiar, hunh? - but lost widgets: lists, followers, contacts, all my creds.

SO PLEASE UPDATE YOUR URL, just add "linda-" before the old name. [linda-leftbrainwrite.blogspot.com]

And please - FOLLOW ME again and pass along your links in comments below if I've overlooked you.

Peace, Linda
Posted by Linda at Monday, May 25, 2009
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11 comments:

  1. KelleyMay 28, 2009 at 10:15 AM

    sniff...she will be deeply missed. :(

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  2. J. M. StortherMay 28, 2009 at 11:17 AM

    The same thing happened to me with my Gateway laptop - but mine was only about a month out of warranty. Grrr.
    ~jon

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  3. J.C. TowlerMay 28, 2009 at 10:28 PM

    Good to see you are back up and running, Linda.
    --John

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  4. LindaMay 29, 2009 at 7:24 AM

    Thanks guys! Yes, it is good to be up and running - for the 3rd time in a week. Watch google restore my original blog - back to the old url.

    The laptop's running nicely, too. My 17" screen - nice. Peace, Linda

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  5. J.C. TowlerMay 29, 2009 at 6:40 PM

    Size matters.

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  6. LindaMay 29, 2009 at 6:45 PM

    Uh, yeah. Size counts - big time

    ;^)

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  7. J. M. StrotherMay 31, 2009 at 9:43 AM

    OK, updated my blog roll and fixed the links in the interview too. Would appreciate it if you could add me to your blog roll again. Pout.

    I have a 17" screen on my laptop too. So nice. Not so nice if you take it with you all the time, but since mine mostly stays on my desk I don't mind the extra weight.
    ~jon

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  8. J.C. TowlerMay 31, 2009 at 2:52 PM

    You're like the white rabbit, Linda, but I'm as dogged as Alice. I'll follow your blog through whatever cyber hole you hop.

    --John

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  9. LindaMay 31, 2009 at 2:57 PM

    Thanks John and Jon! JC, I appreciate your patience. I've been learning webmastery via bootstraps, and uploaded the wrong way. I'm hoping this is the last of the hopping.

    Jon, you're linked. Glad you caught, because I uploaded all the blogs I follow and yours, well, it's always been 'special' and didn't cooperate. In now. Peace, Linda

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  10. Mike Whitney June 5, 2009 at 9:44 AM

    To give your intuition a helping hand, here's a tip from a gear head pal who advised me to keep an eye on my seven year old Dell PC: Control Panel / Admin Tools / Event Viewer /
    System - watch the warnings or errors, if the same ones repeat from day to day, find out what and why.
    fwiw. ;>)

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  11. LindaJune 5, 2009 at 9:33 PM

    Ah, Mike, thanks for the hint. I didn't know and off to check it out. My baby went to dell hospital 14 months ago, so I knew it was hospice time. She was a sturdy thing - banged out 13 gigabytes of 'real' words (saved ones) and another 22 of work words. She was tired...

    Thanks for popping by! Peace, Linda

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