Joe Chin

Meltdown

About two weeks ago I get a call from my wife saying the iPod had dropped out of her bag and the magic smoke came out. Normally this wouldn't matter to me but in this case in my infinite wisdom and rush forgot to backup my music. I wouldn't say I forgot to backup but the iPod was the only place I kept my music in addition to the PowerMac that is MIA at the moment. It was originally formatted for use on a Mac. Everything around me here is PC.
So I went on the hunt for a friend with a Mac and came to my good friend to Johanna. a budding movie director and wicked bartender. She let me use her ibook and we worked on the poor thing like ER surgeons. Unfortunately wanna has no broadband and her neighbors don't want to share. If there was a problem I had to stop, go home research it, get the proper software and come back the next day. The surgery took 3 days. Like Dr. Frankenstein I finally revived the patient but now the HDD makes the "clunk" of impending doom. Access to some of my files and music is no go now. Its a shame because some of my favorite music seems to be in the area of the "clunk". God must be punishing me.
I'm currently backing up 9GB of the 12 and low level formatting.

BTW. want to know how I got her spinning after a nasty accident. Beat the crap out of it. LOL some solutions never fail.

Mass transit

I've got a confession to make. I dig mass transit systems. Especially because where I'm from the mass transit system is a joke. Before Florida became the people swamp there were wide open roads. Some went to nowhere and some went to the BFE end of Coral Springs. I tried one of these "systems" called the BFT and left pretty unimpressed. The busses took forever to arrive and when you did get to the transfer station the bus you needed wasn't there and wouldn't arrive for 30-45 minutes. This was the weekday, weekends you could forget about it. Which is why I love mass transits systems that actually work and are used by real people.
I found this little gem on the internet.

How many can you list. Just like everything else in Thailand, BTS is my favorite. But New York's MTA wins where it counts.

Back in the City of Light

I made it back. Back to the city atleast. I gave up on the job in the South. After a few weeks it was too much effort for too little reward and now here I am. But I've been very busy. my iPod that I've had since forever took one too many dives and gave up the magic smoke. So I've been monkeying with every file recovery program under the sun that has support for HFS+ and Windows or Linux support. Obviously this would be easier on a Mac but I don't have that at my disposable.....look at that the entire music partition disappeared.

This only gets better.

When things don't work

I got a new notebook a few weeks ago. I'm putting it through its paces and so far its been doing well. An Acer is what it is. With the bright screen and French keyboard. and all the other goodness. Like I said I'm putting it throught the paces and decided to play one of the songs I purchased on iTunes. Thats my mistake. Since it can't reach the server to authenticate my license to play this stupid song. I paid for it. I want to hear it. right? wrong. Sorry, "iTunes could not connect to the Music Store." And this is why I don't agree with DRM infested music.