In the past thirty-three hours, I have:
Now, I think I might sleep.
We just got back from the island of Koh Sichang. More photos are on display in the Thailand 2005 gallery, now also in vaguely chronological order.
She laughs. “See you in Siam“, she calls, as I jump into the taxi, and am finally whisked away.
I’m going back to Thailand for a couple of weeks. Bye for now.
Okay, perhaps I underestimated how much I need my computer.
I ordered a replacement 80Gb hard drive from dabs.com yesterday, paid just over £40 (including the extra fee for next-day delivery), and it arrived on my desk this afternoon.
I remember paying more than £200, and waiting weeks for my first ever hard drive to arrive. It was a 340Mb drive, for my Amiga 1200. Now that’s going back a while.
I only complained about the hassle of reinstalling Windows last week, and now I’m having to do it again. Instant karma?
Who is ‘General Failure’ and why is he reading my hard disk?
The old joke is rather less funny this evening, since my hard drive is currently doing a passable impression of a washing machine full of rusty nails. I’m only able to post this entry because of the godsend that is Knoppix.
I fly to Thailand on Saturday, and I doubt I’ll be buying a new hard drive before then. So apologies in advance for what I guess will be a severe lack of entries this week…