I was messing with my new computer the other day and managed to corrup the master boot record or the partition table or something. Regardless, the drive is now unreadable. *sigh* And of course, I had no backups. How did I do that? Well, I had moved my backups to the new computer, and had been removing them from the old backup source to free up space. I hadn't gotten around to re-backing up the data from the new computer yet when the drive got fubared. So now about 100 GB of data - including all my pics, my software, everything - is over at Microworx trying to get recovered. Until then, I guess I just wait.

Help your fellow man, both figuratively and literally: www.Boobs4BourbonSt.com

The concept? Instead of collecting money to support hurican Katrina victims directly, they are offering an inducement to get folks to donate to established charities like the Red Cross or the Clinton/Bush fund. They are asking people to send in pics of their own boobs to the site, in the spirit of Mardi Gras. In order to see the pics, you just have to send them proof that you've donated money to help with Katrina recovery.