Balaji’s Blog

I’m not dead (but it was close)

So almost unbelievably, I’m posting again, after a gap of (checks the site) 6 weeks :O. What happened?

Ok, in chronological sequence:

1. Oblivion – TES IV sucked almost 3 weeks of my life. Mostly in figuring out how to get it to play on my laptop (Many thanks to asp and his awesome Oldblivion). Once I had finally figured out the configuration settings that would get me a stable, playable framerates (You’d be surprised how playable TES IV is even at 6 fps ), I wound up spending a mess of time figuring out all the mods I should have in the game. Hence, many hours spent over at TESS

2. My laptop’s hard drive crashed. A complete, unrecoverable crash. The BIOS couldn’t see the Hard drive kind of crash. (. Since I operate mostly from my client’s offices, I never had a network drive to back stuff up onto, so 3 years of offical and personal data is now trapped in my old hard drive (More than 3 years actually, I had email archives and downloads from my college days on it as well )

I’m still hoping I get my data back, though there was quite a ruckus in my office over the price of getting the contents recovered in Singapore. So it’s gone to India and I await further news on it.

It took me forever to recover from this, simply because I had to scour the Net again for installers for all my favourite software. It took me a while just to remember what were all the programs I had installed!

I’ve got myself an external hard disk now (200GB, USB2.0) and am using Second Copy to back up all my stuff. I did play around with SyncBackSE initially, but it wasn’t reliable enough for me (using Windows scheduler to trigger the backup jobs really put me off).

3.Work – obviously losing all my data put a major crimp on my productivity. Once I had my laptop back, there was a metric fuck ton of work to catch up on. Just as I was getting my head back above water, I was asked to travel my company HQ in Bangalore for a conference.

So I’m back in Singapore now, recovering from my Bangalore trip (more on that in a little while) and picking up the threads of my blog .

PS: Many thanks to Richie – his gentle questioning forced me off my lazy ass and back on this blog

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