I have a new computer. Another one! I took my fried new computer back to the Apple Store, where they did a bunch of testing and determined that a capacitor blew in the logic board, taking the hard drive out with it. So no data recovery, alas. The biggest loss turned out to be my time sheet, which I had to turn in this morning. Normally at the end of each month, I review the past month's email to make sure I didn't miss anything. Can't do that this time because I lost my email too. Oh well, I made my best guess. Luckily I worked almost entirely on one project this month. That made it easier to recreate my time.
I did lose one thing I'm a little bummed about: the past 5-6 weeks of This American Life podcasts. I had been saving them for my next road trip. Has anyone got them & if so, can you help me out?
i download the TAL podcasts each week (while they're offered for free via itunes), but i think that if you try to access past weeks' podcasts after the free week is up (in other words, if you tried to play in itunes one of the podcasts you downloaded three weeks ago) you'd find you'd get an error message.
i might be wrong. but i don't think you really "lost" anything.
that doesn't seem to be true. My old computer had several TAL podcasts from before I got the new computer, in other words all more than 1 month old. All of them play just fine. I think they prevent the download after a week, but once the file is downloaded to your computer they can't stop you from playing it.