The Mock Dock

Oh Prince. You sexy, senile little beast.

According to this, Prince is kiiiiind of losing his mind. He says the internet is “over.” I’m not even entirely sure what that means, but to HIM it means that he will categorically refuse to have anything to do with putting his music out online, or having a website, or numbers.

Wait. What?

No, I’m serious. He said, “All these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that cant be good for you.”

I actually don’t disagree with him, as I am not a fan of math. But STILL. This is kind of wack.

It’s a good thing he’s still a sexy little beast.

You guys – my laptop has crashed AGAIN.  Do you realize what this means?  This means that I am absolutely incapable of actual work productivity right now.  I am sitting in an office which belongs to a co-worker who is out today, and am borrowing his computer, but I have no access to actual work stuff that I need in order to do actual work.  No access to my files.  No access to company calendars.  Nothing.

But you know what?  Happily, because of the wonder and magic of the worldwide web, I have access to The Mock Dock.  It’s always here.  I LOVE that.  It’s like an old trusted friend that I can always count on.

Because I’ve only just now gotten internet access though, I am completely unaware of the news of the day.  I have no access to my Mock Dock email at the moment either, so those of you who have sent me, alertly and astutely, news stories of interest?  I’m not ignoring you.  I simply haven’t seen your messages yet.

I hope to get caught up this evening, hopefully at around the same time that Tatiana is being kicked off of American Idol.

I posted before about how much life pretty much stops when you can’t access the internet.  I find it virtually impossible to exist without internet.  So you can imagine my delight at having access to the internet on my new iPhone, which is quite possibly the coolest thing I’ve ever owned besides Suki.  I love high tech gadgets that are all gadgetolified and gadgetastic.

But you know what totally sucks about technology?  The part where you become totally dependent on it, and then when it fails to work in the way you expect it to, your life becomes completely f*cked.  Welcome to my last 18 hours.

So yesterday, remember how I posted joyfully about my 8th anniversary and happily told you of Mini-Mock’s mookie booka cha?  Yeah, that was the last time my computer actually worked.  After that, I shut down, went to work, tried to start my laptop up again, and……nothing.  Nothing, I should clarify, except the blue screen of death.  You know the screen I’m talking about – that one that basically says, “Your life, as you knew it, is about to end, with respect to technology and this particular laptop.”

So I go to my IT guy, and he goes to the Dell guy, and together they conclude that the only way to fix it is to “reimage” it.  So I think, “Sure!  Reimage!  That sounds awesome! Have at it!”  And so he did.  He basically reset my laptop to factory settings, and saved everything in my documents and on my desktop and in my internet favorites onto some other hard drive and then reloaded it all onto my “reimaged” laptop.

Here’s what he DIDN’T save, and what I discovered this morning.

EVERY EMAIL I’VE RECEIVED between July 10, 2007 and the day before yesterday.  Yeah.  A year and a half’s worth of emails, which, in my line of work, is pretty much catastrophic.  And, coincidentally, July 10, 2007is the date he gave me a new laptop.  So I have everything from my first day on the job to July 10, 2007, and then nothing beyond that except what came to me yesterday on my iPhone. So I go to him this morning to get help retrieving these emails, which I’ve neatly stored into personal folders (which are actually what’s missing), and he says, after researching, “Yeah. Those are gone.”

So the rest of our conversation?  Jump in to read.

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