Adam Turtle, Freelance Web Design in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Since1986
Archive for November, 2008
November 17 th
Catastrophic hard drive failure!
Saturday
I was typing something up late on Saturday night when my computer froze. Usually, it’s just an application causing the stall but this time I had to turn the whole laptop off, and upon restarting it I came across this image:
I also heard the noise of the hard drive having difficulty, a clicking followed by a zap sound. Very unsettling.
I put the Mac OS X Leopard installation disc back in and took a look at Disk Utility, only to confirm what I thought – the hard drive was unreadable. All my stuff, now gone. Annoying to say the least, expensive too…
November 3 rd
Translink to cut Sunday services
I’m not one to complain (ok, not true), but Translink is one company I have a strong opinion against. I resisted the urge to call this post “Translink Pt II”, as two-parters seem to be the trend now, instead opting for creating an entire category called Translink, for ease of use in venting my rage in days to come. Here’s my latest pickle:
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/nir-plan-to-cut-sunday-trains-14017813.html
In a nutshell, it’s been proposed that Translink cut it’s Sunday train services due to “high fuel prices”…
