23 September, 2006

It looks like my hard drive has failed, after all.
I’m in Safe Mode (with networking, fortunately), backing up what’s movable on that drive.

If I can do it, I’m going to have to burn a Windows 2000 CD, but I can’t find my serial.

I’ll be at work until 10 pm.

If anyone has any extra hardware or software (let’s keep it legal, though - I don’t like fighting with WGA) to donate, feel free to let me know.

It takes text messages as well as phone calls.

Dan, you have full liberty to call me after 9:45 pm US Eastern today, or any time tomorrow.

Riddle me this:
You’re not home. Your home phone has an answering machine. You also have a cellular phone, to which you’ve given family members the number to reach you on.

A family member has these numbers.
This family member calls your home number, and the answering machine picks up.

As this family member, do you:
1: Leave a normal “Call me back, 813-000-0000, it’s important.”
2: Hang up, and call the cell number you’ve been given?
3: Hang up, and try the home number in a couple of hours because it’s not that vital?
4: Act like a pure bred fool, and call the names of everyone you know that lives in the house, and tell them to ’stop screening your calls’ and ‘pick up the phone’ ?

Most of us would have picked options 1, 2, or 3, I’d hope.

However, this person decided earlier today, to leave a message as long as the answering machine would let her, doing number four.

What kind of sense does this make? o_O