i'm baaaaaaaaaaaackkkkkkkkk

my laptop (11 months old mind you) contracted some type of fatal disease. i don't know how or why but it did. it died. well the hard drive did. dell sent me a new one which i installed yesterday. i immedately deleted the security i had installed and purchased norton 360. when i was on the phone with dell, i asked the rep to forget whatever he was doing and to tell me what HE PERSONALLY HAD installed on HIS system.

well this one seems pretty thorough AND it also backs up your files and stuff (i had an external hard drive so i didn't lose MOST of my music and pictures and documents. i did lose stuff though. you know, some pics i didn't transfer over, ALL of my bookmarks some software i had - some discs i can find, some i can't).

what a pain in the ass i must say. work has blocked us from accessing our personal email so i was without it for a few days.

i don't want this ever to happen again. it was NOT nice