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Up and Down Day
Nov. 6th, 2010 11:11 pmGood bits of today: looking at two flats in Birmingham for when I'm working there during the week from the New Year (one was good, the other was perfect) and meeting up with G for some drinks.
Bad bits of today: immense travel hassle, including a really bad case of different train operators failing to work together. Being sent from Marylebone to Paddington because the train has been diverted is one thing. Then being sent to Euston because it's been delayed yet again is another. Getting to Euston to be told that notwithstanding what I'd been told at Paddington, Virgin would not accept my London Midland ticket was very annoying indeed (and cost me £11). Also computer failure.
Yes, my five-year-old G5 Power Mac has finally bitten the dust. It's refusing to boot and the main hard drive is doing nothing but making nasty clicking noises. Now, everything ought to be backed up on my 1TB MyBook drive, and almost all my current work is on my DropBox folder anyway, so I can do ongoing stuff either on my work PC or my netbook. But I'll need a new main home computer; yes, I could probably resurrect the G5, but it would still have the issue of being able to run less and less Mac software as PowerPC architecture gets more and more obsolete. I'd been seriously thinking of replacing it anyway whilst I'm still eligible for Apple's educational discount, and the main question is whether I go for a PowerBook or an iMac. But right now I'm up to my eyeballs in various stuff and I'm really not looking forward to spending a day or so getting a new machine set up. But it was going to happen some time soon, so I might as well bite the bullet.
Bad bits of today: immense travel hassle, including a really bad case of different train operators failing to work together. Being sent from Marylebone to Paddington because the train has been diverted is one thing. Then being sent to Euston because it's been delayed yet again is another. Getting to Euston to be told that notwithstanding what I'd been told at Paddington, Virgin would not accept my London Midland ticket was very annoying indeed (and cost me £11). Also computer failure.
Yes, my five-year-old G5 Power Mac has finally bitten the dust. It's refusing to boot and the main hard drive is doing nothing but making nasty clicking noises. Now, everything ought to be backed up on my 1TB MyBook drive, and almost all my current work is on my DropBox folder anyway, so I can do ongoing stuff either on my work PC or my netbook. But I'll need a new main home computer; yes, I could probably resurrect the G5, but it would still have the issue of being able to run less and less Mac software as PowerPC architecture gets more and more obsolete. I'd been seriously thinking of replacing it anyway whilst I'm still eligible for Apple's educational discount, and the main question is whether I go for a PowerBook or an iMac. But right now I'm up to my eyeballs in various stuff and I'm really not looking forward to spending a day or so getting a new machine set up. But it was going to happen some time soon, so I might as well bite the bullet.
