Well, as I said yesterday, my laptop died. It started yesterday afternoon, I was using it fine and then all of a sudden it started to make a horrible grinding noise. I hoped this was just from the fans, but as I listened and the computer froze, I realized it was not the fans, but the hard drive. I tried everything I could think of with my limited resources at home to get the machine to boot and the drive to work, but nothing worked. I had a 3 year extended warranty on the laptop with Best Buy, so I called them up to inquire about how long it would take to fix, it was clearly a hard drive issue, they told me 3-5 days. Seeing as how I needed some of the information on the laptop, as the work I had done last week was not backed up, I did not want to give them the laptop right away. I decided to leave home a day early and head back up to school, at least there I had my tools and another working computer to work off of. I got back up to school and tried a few things with no luck, I couldn’t get the machine to boot off the hard drive. I created a bootable linux CD with “Damn Small Linux” and was able to boot into that, from there I was able to mount the dying hard drive and luckily recover most of the data I needed. With that I felt much better and although I didn’t want to give up my laptop for a week to Best Buy, I didn’t want to spend the $100+ to fix it myself when they would do it for free. Today I gave them my laptop, told them of the issue and now I wait to see if they actually fix anything. Not a great way to end spring break.

On another note I created a Tumblog, you can see it here: http://boredmind.tumblr.com/. It’s not too much, basically a place where I can post quick little things, pictures, quotes, links and such without making a full blog post about it. I will integrate it somehow into the sidebar or the main part of the site so you won’t have to check two sites, only this one.

That’s about it for now, break is over, work has begun again. Back to working on things I don’t want to do.