NEWS:

02.18.04 - Terrence Marks:

I'm going through a full reinstall of Windows XP. When I last reloaded, I repartitioned my primary master drive and it wound up as F: (with my primary slave as C: and CD-ROM drives as D: and E:). Then I installed Windows 2000 Server on the slave drive (which it calls D:, while it says the master drive [known in WXP as F:] is really C:). It's just more trouble than it's worth. And since this is the last time I'll have a spare HDD to use as a data sump, I may as well get it taken care of. If it were just the drive it'd be one thing, but since I've got a variety of folders and such left over from W2k Server, it's just easier to clean everything off. So I've been burning things to CD. Music is easy to burn - it comes in nice discrete chunks called albums that run about 60-160MB each and those can be easily divided into genres. Anime is less so; I'm anal enough to try to get CDs that are just one series in order. So because I'm missing a few episodes of Tenshi no Shippo Chu, f'rex, I've been letting it sit on my drive for months. Manga is even worse, because the divisions are too small. I can put a hundred chapters of various things, but since I don't always collect them in order, I'll never be able to figure out which of my five discs has chapter 4 of Rough or volume 2 of Kero Kero Chime. And I have chapter 3 of Addicted to Curry, but did I burn the first two chapters to disc or delete them in a fit of boredom? So yeah, that's all why I'm going to reload my computer.