Love and Hate

Love: Got my new pager today. The old one died due most likely to being dropped one too many times. In my defense, the holster it was designed with was prone to slipping, and it just wouldn't stay put. For the last month or so of it's life, I took to carrying the darn thing in my pocket instead.

The new pager, a Unication M90, seems to sit much more securely in the holster, and even comes with a backup and restore utility that lets me import my addresses, rather than having to enter them one at a time with my thumbs. Sadly, it lacks the one feature I actually enjoyed on the other pager. Tetris.

Hate: I was attempting to install Visual Studio 2003 on my laptop yesterday, and had to make some room to do so. I was down to 700 MB on my C drive, and that was after I moved the page file. So I went on a mad uninstall spree, and cleared up about 3.0 GB. In the process, I must have removed something vital, because my MS Office applications have now ceased to function, claiming that there is both insufficient memory, and no access to the office shared tools. The only thing I can remember removing other than my installs of VB, SQL and C++ 2005 that might have affected it, was the MS Office Journal Viewer. Who knew?

So, today I am burning DVDs of disk images so I can re-image my machine. Again. For the second time this year. And it's only February. Good thing I take backups.