Why I haven’t been keeping up with my posting schedule

I haven’t been keeping up with my posting this month for a couple of reasons. We went for a weeks holiday to Dorset, visiting my family and I did my best to stay completely away from computers – though there was, inevitably, some time spent fixing computers, giving them a clean out and making sure they were running properly.

The other reason was that I had a bit of a hardware failure. Vista wouldn’t boot and kept throwing a BSOD, going in to Safe Mode I discovered that my primary HDD had been saying it was about to fail for a couple of months. I wasn’t expecting to see this as the stop error the BSOD was giving suggested it was a problem with my graphics card. Anyhow to cut a long story short I had to buy a new graphics card (Zotac GeForce 9600GSO) and replace my primary HDD, which meant paving a new system. Not that much of a deal, I’m using Live Mesh to backup my documents safely in the cloud and the few other bits that I’d hate to loose I tend to share with my work pc (I have quite a few dual screen wallpapers that I’ve taken some time to build up).

So the computer is now restored (yes I could have used the backup Vista was keeping of my entire system, but that would have meant formatting a drive that I didn’t want to lose the data from) and, hopefully, normal blogging will resume.