Is dead. My new computer is dead. I got it so recently that I never even got around to mentioning that I had it.
I have no idea what happened. It was asleep all day while I was out. I came home, spent about 10 minutes checking email and web surfing, then clicked the BBEdit icon, and boom. Dead computer. The screen went white and it made a burned plastic smell.
I turned it off and left it off for about forty minutes, then tried to start it up again. No go. Can't start it from the emergency CD either. I called tech support, who told me to pack it up and return it to the Apple store, who will likely give me a new one.
What a pain. The most annoying thing is the loss of files. Which isn't really the disaster of the world, actually. I'll lose a month's worth of email, and the psd files for the design concepts for a new client. But I can recreate those. Most of the last month I spent working on programmatic stuff that's on the server. I just remembered, there were some photos and music files too. Dang.
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Crap! My deepest sympathies.
Oh, it's not that bad. I mean when you think about it, whining about having a spiffy new computer replaced under warranty is kind of, well, whiny :)
The loss of email for the past month will be inconvenient but not a crisis. I'm bummed out about losing the recording of my most recent Divaville show, but what the heck, there will be other shows. Likewise the photos. They were all just snapshots, none were "the shot of my life, I must save this for posterity."
So it's not that bad really. I was just in the mood to complain last night.