My lack of blog entries over the past week was not due to my inactivity. On the contrary, I have been working feverishly behind the scenes to get everything ready for a June 2nd launch of the web site.
As my typical fashion, I like to multi-task and do several things at once. In this case it was to my total detriment. As I was editing video content, uploading new content to the web site, I decided my poor overworked computer wasn’t operating quickly enough. I diagnosed the problem as a fragmented hard drive. It had been a few years since I had performed a defrag on my hard drive so I pushed forward, damn the consequences !
The resulting consequence after the defrag; some crucial programs that I was using to prepare the video content, STOP WORKING ! Argh !! Now this is fairly typical for bad luck on my part. To complicate matters, when I asked for support from the software developer, you are not going to believe the response I received.
To observe The Dragon Boat Festival (The Dragon Boat Festival is a Chinese Traditional Festival celebrated on May 5th in the lunar calendar in memory of an ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan), we will provide limited customer service from May 27, 17:30 to May 31, 9:00, 2009. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.
Of course, now I was FRANTIC, as the June 2nd deadline for launch was rapidly approaching. Restoring the Windows system to an earlier system date, did not work, and actually made the problem worse.
I purchased two new copies of the programs that I was using, removed the old programs prior to doing so, re-installed the new copies and I was off to the races once again (having less fingernails in the process).
You have to love technology !
JP