Blogging broke my computer
I use a six-year old Pentium III personal computer and I never had any big problems with it. Well, it did catch a few viruses here and there but all in all it has served me faithfully and I have come to rely on it for everything except maybe for making me coffee. Since being hooked on blogging I have maybe overdone it a little bit because my hard disk suddenly started making funny noises. The next time I booted up I was greeted with a message that my hard disk needed to have a thorough surface scan owing to some indications that it may have developed bad sectors. I said to myself well, "the old girl has finally decided to complain after all", and proceeded to scan which took forever. Any length of time greater than three hours where I could not touch my keyboard I consider to be in the same order as forever. So there I was spending forever with nothing to do but wait not really thinking that anything was the matter with my computer.
Forever stretched to forever and a half and I could not detect any progress except for the red LED which lighted up continuously, an ominous sign to me. I decided to give the little lady a rest and turned the power off. The next day I tried to turn the old PC back on and I was informed that my hard disk was in danger of failing warning me to save its contents to another disk. This was it. I never got the PC to boot again. I had lost my hard disk.
It was not really blogging that blew my hard disk out. It was trying to promote it. Seeking more visitors to my blog brought me to an intriguing concept: bring my blog to sites where other people can view it in exchange for viewing their stuff too. I thought, this is a neat idea. I could pick up a thing or two from these people while at the same time giving them a chance to view my blog so, I jumped right in and joined a couple not really knowing what I was getting myself into. I could not really determine the ethical aspect of it although I suspect that some sites do go over the top. The gist of my lesson is very simple and very direct and required no wrangling with horns of moral dilemma, no ambivalence, no ambiguities and no equivocation. Traffic exchanges especially the automatic kind can be murder on your machine with special emphasis on the most vulnerable part of it: the hard disk.
Forever stretched to forever and a half and I could not detect any progress except for the red LED which lighted up continuously, an ominous sign to me. I decided to give the little lady a rest and turned the power off. The next day I tried to turn the old PC back on and I was informed that my hard disk was in danger of failing warning me to save its contents to another disk. This was it. I never got the PC to boot again. I had lost my hard disk.
It was not really blogging that blew my hard disk out. It was trying to promote it. Seeking more visitors to my blog brought me to an intriguing concept: bring my blog to sites where other people can view it in exchange for viewing their stuff too. I thought, this is a neat idea. I could pick up a thing or two from these people while at the same time giving them a chance to view my blog so, I jumped right in and joined a couple not really knowing what I was getting myself into. I could not really determine the ethical aspect of it although I suspect that some sites do go over the top. The gist of my lesson is very simple and very direct and required no wrangling with horns of moral dilemma, no ambivalence, no ambiguities and no equivocation. Traffic exchanges especially the automatic kind can be murder on your machine with special emphasis on the most vulnerable part of it: the hard disk.
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Fight stress. Try meditation.
posted by webnight @ 6:53 PM
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