As I write this, I am frantically copying data off of my laptop. Every minute or so a very loud clicking noise is followed by disk thrashing and a very sluggish OS. The Event Log reports bad blocks on the drive and explorer is crashing frequently with I/O errors.

Click, click, click, thud. Ahh the familiar sound of a hard drive dying. Yay for the 4 year service plan I bought. Circuit City here I come.

Since I’m going to be sending it in for service, I’ll also mention the horrible battery life lately (just over an hour at most) and the inability of the docking station’s DVD/CDRW to read or record CDR or CDRW.

This morning after coming back from breakfast, Ana and I stopped in a Best Buy to finally look at a new cellphone for me. I’ve been very reluctant because I like my old phone so much, even if the screen has gone out and it’s only about 10% effective as a phone. Anyway, Ana finally got me in and looking at new phones and I ended up with an awesome phone/pda Treo 600.

From playing with it, it seems to be an awesome device. Ever since getting rid of service for my Motorola T900 text pager, I’ve missed being able to chat with David and others at pretty much any time of day.

At work we are evaluating Plone for use as a KnowledgeBase. Out of curiousity, I set one up here at home. The software has some pretty amazing capabilities and I’m trying to find some uses for it – either for myself or Ana and her class projects. Recently I have started using phpWiki as a KnowledgeBase of sorts at home. Unfortunately, it has been working out well and I don’t need something as rich as Plone… It’s not bad to be simplistic, is it?