As the worst possible time my harddrive died again. Well it didn’t quite die 100%, but it seems to overheat after about 10 minutes of use at which time it just halts the computer. I’m guessing it gets over heated.

Now, I’m due to travel to Europe for job interviews this weekend and I’ve been trying to finish a client project as well as one of my own. I did manage to recover most important stuff, but I’m not quite sure how I’m going to work as I haven’t got the dough for a new drive right now. Currently I’m running Knoppix (a bootable linux cd) sans hard drive. It even does come with blackdown java installed.

So now I need to get myself a flash drive and use that as my home directory. At least that will be cheaper than any other solution. I do need to get a new notebook the moment I have any spare cash. This one is ancient. It will be 4 years old in November. I think that is a record for me. But that is what happens when you give up regular income an attempt to bootstrap.