It’s not good when you wake up in the morning after a bad storm and discover that your computer won’t boot up. But it’s really bad when you find that the other computer won’t boot either, and then when you pull your 10-year-old third-string backup system out of the garage so you can get online with a text-only browser and at least get some troubleshooting documentation, you realize your router and cable modem are both dead to the world. That was my Saturday morning. Read more »

Thought I’d share this, since it reminds me of my attitude in school.  Only problem is: in the real world, sometimes you can’t finish every assignment on the bus on the morning of the day it’s due, so it’s a bad habit to develop.