Serendipity35

The tech glass went half empty this past weekend when my wireless router gave out. I knew something was up last Thursday morning when my Internet connection kept going down. Unfortunately, it coincided with the webinar I was doing for HigherEdExperts. Not a good time to lose your connection. I thought it was my cable modem, but it was the router which totally died Friday. So, out to buy a new one and also upgrade the wireless card.

Then yesterday, my laptop turned into a brick. Hopefully, the hard drive is OK and I can salvage things.

Yeah, I have an external drive for backups, but I don't back up everything or every day, so things are gone since my last big backup at the end of October.

Here's the glass half full part. It's a good time to take stock in what I had on the laptop and what I really need. All those podcasts, blog ideas, video downloads unwatched, white papers and PDFs to read. I'm all caught up!

Then again, the downloaded student work from my online course, archived email, and web pages & works in progress might be gone.

I'm glad I started using Foxmarks for my Firefox browser. It automatically synchronizes your bookmarks between two or more computers running Firefox. It also lets you access your bookmarks from any computer anytime via my.foxmarks.com. It works in the background to keep your bookmarks up-to-date on all your computers.

If only there was a nice widget to keep the rest of my life synchronized, and if that glass is half full with vodka, now would be a good time to empty it.