Alizee Nation - recap

Normally I try to keep it related to anything but me, but what the heck.
Started out the week redoing a whole new blog layout. The previous layout had become slow, over packed with items and...infected. Time to look for a new layout. The previous one I took a standard two column format and tweaked the code to make it a three column and added and added and added. This time I looked for a 'pre made' simple format. But can I conform to the less is more theory? I will try to make use of more links and not everything plus the kitchen sink on one page. We shall see.

As I gradually added to the blog layout a new development occurred, my laptop crashed. I thought I fixed it with running a repair but...that only put it on life support. It appeared I lost everything but with some persistence I was able to bring back all the files and save them, at least all I could remember to save. How to save them...I could not do with an online back up, it would not allow me. A trip to the local discount store for computer junk food I discovered a 4GB flash drive for $10, I'll take two. Saving on the flash drive the computer did let me do.

Now to do a clean install...with the CD spinning and hard drive working the laptop kept overheating and shutting down, even with a laptop fan under it. After wasting much time and continuing to shut down time after time I came up with a new idea. I let it cool down, I hustled it along to the formatting portion, then I put it in the refrigerator. Yeah, you read that right. The refrigerator kicked on almost immediately. After the format portion was finished I had to keep opening the door to answer questions as the install went along. The bottom line...it worked!!!

Now it's the slow process of downloading or installing all the programs I need. You know, Adobe Acrobat, Office, FLV player, Itunes, antivirus...and on and on...

Back to over loading the blog site! :)
Thanks for listening

Alizee Nation