An Intelligent Blonde!

Back in my days of internet dating (yes, I DID!), I used to go by the handle "Intelliblonde". Nope, not a labrador, but a real, live intelligent blonde.

And today I'm feeling intelliblonde again. I've cracked something I really didn't think I could - a computer from-scratch re-install of WinXp, network card, internet and proxy server settings! Then anti-virus, Google goodies, konfabulator and Open Office, without having to do a single google search. Mapped a drive too (but had a bit of help, I'll admit) Didn't think I had all that in me.

The computer completely died after Friday's 6-hour power failure, and when I tried to repair windows there wasn't even a whisper. I had no choice but to format the drive and start again from scratch. Which I actually did. Wow. I impressed myself so much I just had to blog it! ;)

Fortunately, I've taken to keeping a lot of stuff floating around in cyberspace instead of stuck on a hard drive, so I really didn't lose anything other than saved idea graphics (saw a nice pic of something I want to make, saved it) and a few bookmarks. I have access to another server for file storage and access from work, so everything was somewhere out there. It's been an easy set-up.

BUT I've also realized that I probably need to have disks of everything I need to do this again, just in case. And that's where I'm at now - backing up the goodies to a place other than this hard drive to store them on.

Cool. There's hope for this blonde yet!