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10 Reasons to Lose Your Hard Drive At Least Once

10. If you’re a workaholic, you will get a few more hours of sleep afterwards.

9. You will have an excuse to be lazy and late on work deadlines.

8. You will have a reason to get new up-to-date softwares, sometimes free from the University.

7. You will get to know the workings of Dell’s (or your computer’s manufacturer’s) customer service.

6. You may get to know who loves you and who doesn’t. 😉

5. You will learn new lessons on how not to use a laptop (e.g. leaving it on all night playing music)

4. You will appreciate the value of $65.05 and five gruesome days of waiting.

3. You will be rid of all the junk in your computer that you have always wanted to delete but didn’t have the required gut, time or patience to delete.

2. You get to read more books.

1. You will get to spend more time with the rest of humanity for a little while.

10 Reasons to Lose Your Hard Drive At Least Once was published on March 30th, 2010, with the tags , , , under the Soliloquy category. There are currently 2 comments on this article so far.

10 Reasons to NEVER Lose Your Hard Drive

10. You may actually get sleepless nights and withdrawal symptoms.

9. You will miss a couple of important work deadlines.

8. New hard drives cost money, and you will have to wait for days, go through frustrating customer service phone responses, before you get it back.

7. You may not remember any/all of the things you’ve lost with it.

6. Everyone thinks it serves you right for not backing it all up when you had the chance. The rest don’t just give a damn. 😉

5. Your students’ grades, results and records might be in it, and you will have to work double hard to get them all back.

4. You will never get back poems, skits, writings, translations in their original forms again.

3. The Geek Squad at BestBuy and all of their good brains may not be able to recover any of your lost data.

2. The computer in your office may be occupied everytime you want to use it.

1. By losing Skype with your hard drive, you might miss your mum’s birthday party.

10 Reasons to NEVER Lose Your Hard Drive was published on March 30th, 2010, with the tags , , , under the Soliloquy category. There are currently 1 comment on this article so far.

What Shall I Write About?

Dear Blog,

What shall I write about today?

Western Union’s polite letter to me that they offer aid only to places in the world affected by natural disasters, or

The final crashing of my laptop computer’s hard drive last night so that I have not been able get it on to work from my apartment nor retrieve any one of my yet-to-be-backed-up documents and files still trapped in it? 🙁

Will you give me an answer before I lose my mind, dear blog?

What Shall I Write About? was published on March 23rd, 2010, with the tags , , , under the Soliloquy category. There are currently 5 comments on this article so far.