Everything is broken

There must be some correlation between heat and technology. Over the past few days it’s been getting warmer each day (35°C right now) and over the past few days something has failed.

The laptop was the first thing to play up, in the middle of coding the driver started clicking about once a second. Now whenever a drive makes weird noises, it’s usually a sign of imminent failure so I tried to shut the machine down and when that failed I pulled the power. Figuring that Windows was probably broken I booted into Ubuntu to recover some files. Thing was, when Ubuntu was running the drive was fins, sounded perfect and everything worked well. This was a little odd to me since a failing drive is a failing drive, no matter what you’re running. So I booted the Vista disc and after 3 runs of chkdsk (command line scan disk) when I had actually put the right parameters in, it fixed a few indexes and was done. I rebooted to a BSOD so I did a repair from the Vista disc and since then everything has been fine (and I also backed up the impotent stuff).

Next day and my 360 decides to play up, it somehow corrupted my gamer profile randomly and refused to login. Weird thing was I was on the 360 most of that day, on and off and I’d used it last a few hours before playing co-op Fable II. Being the ever helpful XBox error message it only gave me an error message along the lines of “Login failed, try checking the connection”. So I ran the diagnostic and everything was fine, so it was obviously a problem on my end. So the next logical step was to recover the gamertag which caused another heap of problems. So I put my gamertag in and details and it took about a minute trying to find the tag begfore throwing up an error (80150003:0 for those who really want to know). So I googled the error for a bit then hit try again and it moved on happily. It took about 15 minuted to download the profile (XBox live has been slow as shit recently) and then everything was back to normal.

Then the problems seemed to break the containment of my room and the forums broke. The sessions table had been damaged and needed repair, which has never happened before. I wasn’t too worried since it’s backed up daily and restoring wouldn’t be a problem but it turns out all I needed to do was click repair table in phpMyAdmin so that was painless.

And 10 minutes ago my chair broke so maybe it’s not just tech…

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