Sunday, September 28, 2008

New Layout

I had to choose a new layout because it was literally cramping my style. ;-) The main reason? I was trying to add the Playlist.com gadget/widget and the last layout was too narrow. It cut the damned thing in half. I did some HTML rendering and tried to increase more space, but I'm just not as well versed in HTML. I did as much as I could, but darn it twasn't enough.

Just a little update on what's going on right now. My internal Hard Disk Drive (HDD) crashed on my laptop. I lost a whole lotta shit. The good thing is that everything that was important to me that I lost can be recovered via searching through my Gmail inbox or found in several strategically placed locations on the internet. AKA Free Internet Storage Sites. I used to recommend Xdrive, but I found out that they were a subsidiary of AOL. I knew bad things were going to happen there. They did have pretty good programming, but recently altered their programming and got rid of the "upload entire folder" option --which pissed me off royally. I am digitizing record albums for my father using the Ion TTUSB record player and I can't be bothered uploading individual files and creating a new folder for them. They were good also because they offered 5 GB of free space. I tried going back to MediaMax but they shut down. They were offerinig 25GB but only 1GB of monthly usage --meaning you could only download 1GB each month for the free service. I'm sure I wasn't the only one who hated that fact. I found out 2 days ago that they closed! (I'm giggling here because now I know I wasn't the only one.) So I found ADrive.com They are offering 50GB for FREE!

What I did to fix my computer, was to find out where the hard drive is stored. Take it out, take out an external hard drive from the caddy. And then swap the hard drives. I put everything back together and booted up the install disk that I got when my computer was shipped. It's like upgrading your laptop hard drive. The original hard drive was 80GB, I've replaced it with a 120GB one. It's pretty sweet. At the moment I have about 87.5 GB free. Nice.

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