Technology

Well there has been a bit of an annoyance for the past couple of days. On Sunday afternoon, my computer froze. I forced shutdown and when I restarted, I was sent to a preboot execution environment, which could not detect the hard drive in which to boot up windows from. I kept trying to restart it, had more technology-savvy friends of mine look at it, and to no avail, I remained in the scary PXE full of technowords. The worst part of this was that my first assessed piece of coursework (yes, in Week 9 of a 10 week term) was due on Tuesday and it happened to be a powerpoint presentation that was saved on my laptop. After going to ITS on Monday morning (and being told that they just worked with the network, not personal computers...wankers) I resigned myself to sitting in the computer lab all of Monday after class redoing my presentation. Luckily I remembered most of it, it was just tragic having to redo it all. Tuesday came, presentation went fine, I didn't touch my computer. Yesterday I went into Brighton to go find a computer store that would actually fix something (how I longed for a Best Buy or something. Not some weird hole-in-the-wall sketch computer store) and when I get to the counter, tell the man what's wrong and turn it on....VOILA it works. Which was good because I didn't have to get anything fixed, but also annoying because I carried it about 1/2 mile from the train station. I have a feeling that this will happen again and it probably won't fix itself next time so I spent all of yesterday backing up files and pictures. It'll be annoying when it crashes but I won't miss anything. It just needs to work for 1.5 weeks more. Then it can have a month long break. Then it will need to work for a couple of months. And then once I'm back in the states it can crash as much as it wants.

Oh and when I finally got my computer back, the internet stopped working for about 6 hours. What is wrong with the English and technology??

Oxford on Saturday!