My work computer has died a hard death. I think it’s the motherboard, but at first it looked like hard drive failure. So I put in another hard drive and got the same error: “Capable, but disabled.” It can’t use the HDD.

I just rebuilt my work computer last week, meaning I spent a day and a half backing up files and fdisking and reinstalling Windows. Meaning I have a full and recent back-up, so the fact that my box ate my hard drive isn’t upsetting me too terribly awfully much…

…but there’s really not a lot around here with which to build myself a new box. We’ve got tons of stuff in here, but it’s mostly old crap. Right now I’m sitting at the back-up server blogging. How much of a big fat dork am I?