Don't Trust Microsoft, Part 574
It all began with a little operating system named ME. And it all ended when, yesterday, all of my email (and folders and addresses and settings) since August 20th, 2001 were irretrievably deleted. Maybe the passive voice isn't *technically* correct. *I* deleted them. But in a very silly way that should never have happened if MS software architects were doing their jobs. Piece of crap Outlook Personal File Folder. It's not that bad. It's not as if I lost every document on my hard drive. It's just email. It's ephemeral. But I can't shake this eerie feeling that the last 3 months didn't happen. My hard drive is lighter; my memory feels lighter too. Every email I ever wrote to or received from Sarah Rapalus, gone. My entire career correspondence as a doctoral student, gone. The messages explaining and analyzing the breakup and reconciliation, gone. Tabula rasa.
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so, if we never broke up, does that mean thanksgiving wasn't my fault? ;)
Says tpodd
29 Nov 2001 at 11:41 PM
Ah yes, this happened to me -- just before I moved from Chicago to the Bay Area, when actually it would have been kind of nice to know the email addresses of people I'd corresponded with in the last few months. I believe I fell victim to the whole "Do you want to upgrade from Version 4 to Version 5?" dodge -- the innocent little dialog box that never informs you that "upgrading" == "deleting".
But it had one good effect, which is that after this episode I never trusted a Microsoft product again. And after almost 2 years, I'm hardly bitter at all. Disillusionment can be a good tonic.
Says Troutgirl
30 Nov 2001 at 01:15 AM
linux.....
Says dad
30 Nov 2001 at 07:30 AM
Kibera AIMed me this gem today:
http://www.bofhcam.org/larts_in_action/helpdesk.mp3
Says Andy
3 Dec 2001 at 11:21 PM
Wow. No, I wasn't that mad. I don't think.
Pohadka.com is becoming an unsafe place for virgin ears!
Says Xy
3 Dec 2001 at 11:32 PM
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