Lessons learnt

May 29, 2007 · Posted in Personal

During the last week, I had my own share of ups and downs - the laptop crash being the highlight of the week. Its a painful, frustrating, tedious job to reimage the laptop and to salvage bits and pieces of your data. To summarize the entire experience in one word - a nightmare. Fortunately, I’d backed up a considerable amount of data and so the hard disk crash did not impact me significantly. None the less, taking regular backups is now at a even higher priority on my list of to-do’s (lesson #1).
On the plus side, I got to spend a few days without having to worry about email, blogs etc. Was able to spend some, as they say, ‘quality time’ with my wife. A short hiatus from blogging and work can do wonders to recharge the batteries and re-energize an overworked soul (lesson #2).

Getting back on track after a hiatus isnt a fun job though. The fact that the impromptu, short-lived vacation is over, is depressing. As if that werent enough, there are a hajjar unread emails and RSS feeds that are sure to overwhelm the faint hearted. Its good that Google Reader just lists the number of unread items as 100+ rather than showing the actual number of unread items. So, whats the best way to recover from all this information overload ? Simply hit the ‘Mark all Items read’ - the most economical and sensible solution (lesson #3).

Stay tuned as I limp back to normalcy.

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