March 17, 2008

You know when an entire day seems like it’s been wasted. You feel so emotionally drained you begin to ooze around slowly like your shoes are stuck to the floor. That’s pretty much what my day turned into. It started out optimistically, I waited for some critical replacement parts for one of my computers to come and waited and waited…

An hour after I should have stopped waiting I finally gave up and got some work done. That’s the beauty of publishing on the internet. Location isn’t a huge factor as long as you have internet access.

Late in the evening I finally tracked the UPS man down (who’s actually quite nice). We shared a few laughs and he sent me on my way with an armfull of corrugated cardboard. I spent the rest of the night fixing my computer which has been down for the last week. It’s times like this that you think about migrating to network storage.

Here’s the hardware configuration after my recent “refresh”:

Intel Core 2 Duo Wolfdale E8400 3.0GHz
Corsair XMS TWIN2X2048-8500C5
Gigabyte GA-EX38-DQ6 motherboard
EVGA 8800 GTS 512MB (G92)
Western Digital Raptor 74GB
2x Seagate Barracuda 250GB

That’s enough tech-speak for the rest of the day.

Pics: In the belly of the beast.