How to revive a dead disk

In case either of you is wondering what happened to my dead PC, this is what happened. First of all, when it died, it died spectacularly. Not for it a bit of file corruption or a blown fuse. For some unknown reason it totally screwed up the file allocation tables and the boot sector.  What [...]

It is out

Today is a huge day in my life. It isn’t different from any other day.  I’m doing more or less the same things.  It isn’t my birthday or any anniversary.  Nothing has significantly changed about me or my home. In some ways this is a day I have been dreaming of for a significant part [...]

Pumping oil

The saga of the PC continues. To those of you who aren’t technically minded, think of my old PC as being an oil tanker. My tanker went on the rocks, the hull was damaged and the engines were completely smashed. Is it now a useless tanker? No.  Because the oil is still on board.  But [...]