Comments on: Video Blog: 3:30AM, Cloverfield Edition

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:23:14 +0000

Seriously Shawn,

This is one of those situations where I highly recommend the “Bulldozer Method” of cleaning. Then just start again with a bunch of new stuff.

I know it’ll work great for you. You’re welcome.

By: Candy

Candy — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:35:05 +0000

One of my client’s recovers data… http://www.globaldatafinder.com/ – tell him I sent ya, maybe he’ll give you a little discount-ish

BUT, let’s talk about this mess…

Oh
My
Gawd

Shawn.

Seriously. Clean that up. New video of sparkly office coming soon?

If I have more than a few things stacked on my desk I start to get the shakes. Just looking at that video made me go running to find the Clorox wipes. Dude… how many bags of trash did you get out of there? LOL.

I know, it’s probably “clean but disorganized”.

Dude.

I need to go sit in the corner and rock back and forth singing the clean up song now…

“Clean up, clean up, every body clean up, clean up clean up…”

By: Random Michelle K

Random Michelle K — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:37:18 +0000

This might make you feel better Shawn: http://klishis.com/Family/2003/Office.php Pictures of us helping my Dad clean his office. Notice that the pile of papers actually gets HIGHER at one point--and that we had to expand out into the hallway.

By: Shawn Powers

Shawn Powers — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:47:12 +0000

Well, as of right now, my room is actually messier…

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:45:14 +0000

You inspired me Shawn. I cleaned up my server room quite a bit today. I even discovered a brand new APC battery in the mess.

By: Shawn Powers

Shawn Powers — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:39:45 +0000

Carlie,

You are not allowed to comment on office proper-ness until you have a coffee pot in the Houston office. If you *have* a coffee pot there now, well, yeah… it’s a mess here. And the dishes are gross.

By: carlie

carlie — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:36:44 +0000

1) OMG you are so messy!
2) At 2:02 did you burp?
3) So seriously, that’s some mess.
4) Dirty dishes in the server room? Shame!

By: Ryder Step

Ryder Step — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:22:52 +0000

Dude… First… You didn’t store your pictures directly on a redundant RAID (I know for a fact you have a RAID 5 at home). Also never trust your backups until you have restored from them… I’ve seen this happen WAY too many times. With my all time favorite being a lady I met who was using backup software to backup the shortcut to the program containing the data she wanted to backup to a floppy every day. She had a couple hundred floppies with a 1kb shortcut on them.

Next, your office isn’t that bad… it could be worse, it’s just cluttered… messy is when you have multiple chocolate bars ground into the rug, and a piece of steak rotting somewhere… but you don’t know where, and possibly a bag of potatoes that has transformed from a solid to a liquid type state.

I’ll see if i have that PCB board on a HD I have laying around.

By: kimby

kimby — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:18:39 +0000

We want to see the “after” pictures too!

By: mattw

mattw — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:07:43 +0000

Re: coffee the most important thing to do at 3:30 a.m.: I think sleep might be the most important thing to do at that time. I know I’d like to be doing that now and it’s 8. Good for you, though, for getting up and to work that early.

Ok, enough blog hopping for me. Back to work.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:49:01 +0000

“Hi Garfield!” made me laugh. I don’t understand how you can function enough to even talk that early. I’d be grunting and snarling until at least ten. You have a highly irregular threshold for the wee hours.

p.s. Cheese poem? Tick tock tick tock tick tock. Possible title for the MM post is “Honk if you love cheeses.” Be inspired by that. Or something.

By: Shawn Powers

Shawn Powers — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:32:34 +0000

Sadly, the PCB went bad. The drive won’t even spin up. I tried ordering a similar drive, but the revision number was different. I need:

WD2500JS-40NGB2

And I think I could recover the data myself. Sadly, I can’t seem to find one online for less than $250ish dollars. If I’m going to spend that much, I think it’s worth looking into recovery companies. (Which I’m doing)

My backups were NOT good, stupid Mac failed to write to the network and never complained about it. Grumble Grumble.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:47:42 +0000

You have a dead hard drive ehh?
Have you tried using spinrite to bring it back? I love showing off this program because it defies conventional wisdom about drives being “dead and gone”. http://www.grc.com/intro.htm

It’s not free but it’s brought back a few drives for me that were unreadable, not spinning at all or making that sickly thumping noise.

I’m up two hours early for no good reason at all so hopefully I made myself useful.

Good luck with the mountain of boxes.