Let There Be Ink

I’m glad to say I finally have my computer back, though it has been stripped by karma and Tekserve of all traces of anything personal. I have started the long process (to be marked with periodic wincing over the coming years) of remembering things that I have lost. If the drive had held out for another two weeks, I might still have been stuck with notes on unwritten plays, political clippings that were urgent in 2002, defunct addresses of out-of-touch friends. A select stash of academic research was actually still living on my Flash drive. In a bit of luck, an iPhoto downloading glitch apparently left a few pictures on my camera. And much of the music can be recovered by leaning on the friends whose collections I regularly tapped anyway (in fact, this might work to my advantage; by playing the sympathy card, I may be able to fill up my new nearly-twice-as-large hard drive with all manner of greatest hits).

All in all, only a minor disaster. But an excellent reason to do three things: 1) email yourself five or 10 of your most important files today, 2) shop around for some external storage (I’m looking into the debate around the 250GB LaCie drive designed by Porsche versus their D2 model), and 3) make a plan for backing stuff up.

Meanwhile, I think this means Big Ink is back, at least on a summer schedule. Thanks once more for your patience. More to come.

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