I know, been nearly a month since I last put up anything in my blog, anyone still there?

Well if so, sorry, see how much free time you have for blogging when you're buying a new house and starting at a new client in your job. Yup, I'm only now getting my sanity back.

Recent annoyance I didn't need though, about 1.5 months ago my Wife's laptop broke, no explainable reason, looked like hardware granted the power button wouldn't even work, always died on startup. So I get an RMA and send my laptop back to Toshiba.

I takes them about a month to get a new part for the laptop which was mildly annoying but if the part isn't available the part isn't available. In the meantime we reconcile to having only 2 computers in the house instead of 3. However when the laptop comes back, they've reformatted the drive, this was really annoying seeing as there was hardly a reason and I re-installed the OS 2 weeks before. Toshiba, was that really necessary? I would have appreciated a phone call asking if it was ok to hose my computer first. Fortunately I had a backup though, even though it was taken a week before it broke. So I re-installed over Toshiba's install and restored.

By the way, for a good backup system I'd heartily recommend IDrive as they've now been tested for a restore and passed with flying colors, for $50/year per user it's great stuff.