I have so many blog links in my About Me! page that I only check them twice a month, and I got lazy on the October ones. Dustyhawk! How do you do it?

I have to many blog links that it seems more than three people have the same Blog-city, Blogdrive and Blogspot layouts! Then, those who do change their layout change to something I’ve seen elsewhere. Heck, I beam with pride knowing that despite the Xfresh blogs having only 9 skins to choose from, we have more tasteful (and not so tasteful) user-made skins. I think Diaryland bloggers have the best layouts… too bad they got that irritating IFRAME and 1-entry-per-page thing.

Oh, and for those who worried about my Western Digital hard disk… it’s alright. Last month the following happened:

Windows said “Updates are ready for your computer. Click here to install the updates.” So I did. My computer then went into SHLWAPI.DLL Entry Point Not Found errors. I had to reinstall Windows (not a full reinstall, but it’s not the Repair option either…) I then let the Windows Update install the patches one at a time, rebooting in between. I then installed Windows XP Service Pack 2 and tadaa! Everything was fine…

Of course, when transporting the CD writer to my main computer, I might’ve knocked a cable loose.

It was a clear Friday night. I was online, then on the phone. When I came back, my brother pointed at the screen, saying it restarted by itself. “Book disk failure” or something. The BIOS didn’t detect the hard disk!

It was too late and too dark to perform surgery.

Damn, there was a lot to backup, considering I had less than 1GB in each of the 3 partitions of the hard disk!

On Saturday I called Fazri amongst others to ask what to do. He gave the most insightful advice – listen for the hard disk motor. I turned on my computer. Again, same error. I turned off my secondary computer (the one I took the CD writer from) just so I could listen for the hard disk.

I couldn’t tell if it was my power supply fan making the noise, so I rolled out the computer table. Click! Whirrr. YAY! Somehow, by rolling out the table, the hard disk was connected again. It booted up fine, and I backed up what I could to the secondary computer via the network.

Still, I got scares from back when I first bought the WD800JB (80 GB PATA 7200 RPM 8MB cache for those who care) – sometimes, accessing folders froze the computer for a minute. After partitioning into 5, 35 and 40 GB parts, I formatted all of them, but the 40 GB one said there was an error in formatting after it was done! Scared, I formatted it again, and it worked since.