I’m pretty sure I’ve managed to live without the internet before. And I’m fairly certain that people survived quite nicely without it for thousands of years up here. But having it down up here for almost two weeks has been a major pain in the er, neck. This has really sucked. Not only did we not have service but any emails sent from sometime on the 15th of January were bounced back. Who knows the potential loss of business this caused and contacts missed. I don’t mind not receiving the spam though.
And just to make sure that I got the computer god’s point, I experienced some sort of mini crash on my main computer. All of my settings, bookmarks and addresses were lost. All of my saved emails (thousands over the past number of years) are gone. So if you were awaiting a reply from me it is unlikely one is coming. Send me a quick email so I’ll have your address again, resend me anything you had bounced back (unless of course it is spam), and shed a tear for me. Shed a tear for me.
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Loosing all your contacts and emails sucks……big time!
I am sure people managed fine for thousands of years up there, but for somebody that moved up there and has a fair number of friends worldwide it must be a painful experience not to be able to contact friends or business contacts, it’s just flat out impossible to stay in contact with everybody by phone.
Only way for me to stay in contact with friends is by email too, I have thought about starting up my own blog, not sure what site I should go with though.
Don’t drop your guard Clare, I’ve found that calamities seem to come in threes. 🙁
Clare, we seem to have had some of the same issues in the past week or so. Tell me, did you get a sinus infect also? Glad to have you back.
Losing all of your email, both new and old, sounds rather catastrophic. I back my email archive up onto a CD pretty often, but didn’t always used to. Lost about a year’s worth of email one time back when I couldn’t burn CDs because the CD drive was broken. I lost all of the last bunch of emails back and forth between my Dad and I before he died. Man, that kind of thing really bites. 🙁
Hi Wolfgang,
Yeah it bites, but life goes on and on the scale of calamities it is still pretty small. I’ve started to recover them, my sister sent me an old mass email I sent with many on them. But much of the recent client ones are lost. Oh well lessons learned. As far as blog sites to go with I’m rather partial to Typepad myself, although Blogger seems to be the most popular.
I’ll be careful Duncan. I’m sure that there is more awaiting me on the computer once I start doing something else.
No sinus infection Dave, but I anxiously await catching the cold that Leah has right now.
Bev,
Losing correspondence is always hard, but losing those emails from your dad must have been especially hard
I have an old back up on CD’s that I’m going to try and recover some. But it goes back quite aways and none of the recent stuff will be there. I anxiously await the new Mac OS with a built in back up, everything is continually backed up. It looks pretty cool. For those of you with PC’s don’t worry, Microsoft will probably steal it in three or four years time.