Saturday stuff

Good news and bad news - bad news first

Bad news: The hard drive on my MacBook failed
Good news: Apple replaced the hard drive (under warranty) today for free. I dropped my MacBook off at 10:45 and picked it up at 2:30 or so.

Lost data: Not really anything as most is "in the cloud". See The Big Switch to Cloud Computing. I did lose somethings: I need to add back in several applications: FETCH, CUTEFTP, TACO Editor. ITunes is a special case. Because ITunes is now empty on my MacBook, if I connect my IPOD all will be erased off the IPOD. I understand the work around is to connect the IPOD to a PC and use freeware to offline the ripped files. I will worry about this next week and do that deed at work.

I had to load back Office 2008, Firefox, and Acrobat Reader. I also have a Mahjong / Solitary game that I had to re-load from CD.

So it wasn't a bad day. Glad my data is "in the cloud"