Anonymous says

Sorry to hear about the bust and the computer. AA against KK, what can u du? Good luck in the ME

01/25/08

harlem (Anonymous) says

Buy yourself a mac. More fun and u don't have to fight the virus war

01/27/08

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Got here last night and just played the $5200 event ("just" as in "busted an hour ago".) It was another non-starter where I never got over my starting stack, although I played moderately well before running KK into AA with an effective 22 BB. Doh.

More (okay, not more) importantly, after struggling for a day or so, my laptop hard drive looks to have totally died. In fact, I'm typing this from the hotel lobby's free Internet PC's. This means no updating the blog until I'm back home on Monday or Tuesday (or maybe Thursday if I run hot in the ME, heh) - I already ordered a replacement off Ebay, but not having a working PC is really going to suck till then.

The good news is I always make sure to copy all the data over to my desktop/vice versa, so I think the only thing I've permanently lost is a few photos I was too lazy to transfer the last time. The bad news is the amount of time it's gonna take to install Windows/Office/Pokertracker/all the other stuff on the new drive...not to mention that my desktop hates rendering videos in Camtasia for some reason, so I've been doing that on my laptop. There are a bunch of raw video files on there that I've made into videos already, but will not be able to reproduce if they ever ask me (this comes up from time to time.)

All the same, this pales in comparison to what would happen if I didn't have a backup copy of (nearly) everything - I don't even want to think about trying to do my taxes with no proof for anything I did last year. 500-odd tournament 'sessions', hundreds of hours of cash games, and no convenient Excel spreadsheet for any of it/records scattered across eight sites, some of which are way less cooperative than others...yeah, okay, that wouldn't be good. If my desktop in NYC gets hit by lightning in the next three days, I'll either have to shell out a billion dollars for data recovery or kill myself. So, basically, the moral of the story is "back up your damn files".

With that in mind, I'm off to, uhh...watch TV and/or spend 12 hours a day in the poker room to avoid boredom, I guess?