Thanks for all the support regarding my XP reinstallation snafu. And by 'support' I mean a charitable comment from Kathleen and a fantastic email from a guy offering to let me FTP into his computer and download all his music/porn. DARLING, THAT WOULD BE FANTASTIC. Please email me back ASAP.

Sure, the response from my readers was a little underwhelming. Afterall, I had reformatted the wrong hard drive and deleted everything -- documents, pictures, music, weblog archives. But whatever -- I should be honored whether one person emails me or 1,000 people do. In this case, only one person emailed me -- and I'm fine with that.

Perhaps I should explain what happened with my computer...

I have (well, had) two hard drives -- a C: and D: drive. The C: drive housed a Windows ME OS. The other drive, Windows XP. After a few months, a few XP files became corrupt, therefore warranting a reformat/reinstallation process.

Enter disaster, stage left.

Putting my faith and two years of weblog archives in the hands of a Dell tech support guy, I reformatted what he told me was the D: drive and installed a fresh copy of XP. A few hours later, I discovered that I had reformatted the C: drive instead -- which had all of my backed up data on it. After sobbing uncontrollably for 10 minutes, I proceeded to become wildly intoxicated at a handful of DC watering holes. Stellar.

So now I no longer have a D: drive. I have a C: drive and an F: drive. (The D: and E: drives are my CD-ROM drives.) This setup is rather strange and sort of throws my computer off balance. I mean, who has an F: drive? So whenever I open up 'My Computer,' I am forced to face the retarded new layout of my computer system. See below.



I hate my computer. Please die.