Thursday, February 17, 2005

Clean Slate

So I was on my computer at work showing someone how to increase their virtual memory size. And while I'm browsing through the system properties, I notice there are a couple unknown account profiles that are taking up alot of hard drive space on my computer. I thought it was the IT group's maintenance accounts so I deleted them. "Ha ha, suck on that IT!", I thought. Anyways, as soon as I hit the delete button, all the icons on my desktop disappeared. Uh oh. Then I looked in the My Documents folder...completely empty. I just deleted my entire legacy at this company (nearly 7 years worth of project stuff!). I was a bit shocked at first. Good thing I'm in between projects right now and the most recent project is backed up on the network drive. No one will ever ask me for any of the other stuff since the other projects are dead. The only thing I really wanted to have back was my resume since I really don't want to recall everything I did from scratch. So it was like a clean slate except I kinda felt bad that all that stuff I worked on was just gone. It's like I never worked here. So today I tried some undelete programs. I'm surprised how much stuff I got back, but some things were corrupted and useless including my resume, doh! Even though alot of the files are corrupted, at least I have the appearance of having my files back. I was probably never going to open any of them again anyway so it looks like my legacy has completely returned, ha ha. Oh, and then I remembered I had my resume on Monster.com, so I got that back, too!

New MSN Search

While I'm talking about computer stuff. You all have probably seen the ads boasting the new MSN search and how it's "so great". Well, I'm telling you that Google is still better and is still the best as far as I'm concerned. Don't believe me? Try using the new MSN search and Google to find "skitguru". I rest my case.