MUDGE‘s Musings
If this latest post looks different, there’s a reason.
A rather disappointing one, actually.
Yesterday afternoon, the official hard drive of the official desktop PC of Left-Handed Complement died a very slow, lingering but apparently permanent death.
As it was the brains of a 4-year old PC, the issue was whether to dig in and replace the hard drive, which would have resulted in an attempt to reconstruct the world, based on the (of course) frequent backups we perform religiously.
Or, as several colleagues (after all, we’re in the IT business) advised, why put a fresh drive into a 4-year old machine? Starting over would require the same amount of restoration, without all the screwdriver elicited perspiration.
Anyone who knows yr (justifiably) humble svt also knows that I am the living embodiment of a wise saying I read long ago: “Beware the programmer with screwdriver.”
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