Quiet night it seems.

This is being typed on my 9 year old PowerBook, given that my iMac’s system disk crashed this afternoon. Just wouldn’t come back on (indeed the system profiler can’t even find it.) Lasted about 3.5 years of daily use, which is about average for hard drives in my experience.

Sad thing is last night after backing up my tax docs to a memory stick I thought of running Time Machine (which I normally keep off and only do aperiodic backups)… alas, now I’ve lost data.

Computers - after using them since the 1970s I think the time has come for us to move beyond them. They break down more often than we do.