iPodless
March 22, 2005
Not every aspect of the trip went well. Friday morning, while leaving Birmingham, I realized that my iPod was missing. I was listening to it on the flight from Baltimore, and apparently left it on the plane. It wasn’t in my car, and I didn’t take the bag it was in anywhere else after the flight. I called Southwest and, not surprisingly, no one turned it in.
So, to the Southwest employee or passenger who found my iPod, but decided not to call anyone from my address book to let them know you’d found it: I hope you go deaf.
The thing that’s really bugging me, though, is all of my data was backed up on that drive. Who knows how savvy the iPod’s new owner is, but all of my photos, personal documents, and some projects are in the hands of a stranger. Not to mention the fact that I’m fairly afraid to do anything with my PowerBook, knowing that I don’t have backups of anything right now.
I’m already feeling the shakes. This withdrawal is going to be painful.
You really have my sympathy there. I forgot my iPod at a Wendy’s last October, and no one was decent enough to turn it in ~ I still haven’t gotten the bucks together to get another one… and I miss it every day.
This may not help you feel much better, but I can at least tell you that I understand.
For You Entertainment:
About 3 weeks ago, I got the itch to install Red Hat Fedora Core 3 so I could tell myself that I am a Linux God™. And the fact that they have a PPC version just made the situation all the more attractive. I decided to install on a spare 160GB drive in my machine. Well, somewhere between the boot loader setup and the rebooting process, it all went to hell. Seems that I lost all my partition tables on ALL my drives. Yes, my OS drive, AND my Storage drive (containing everything from my whole computing life).
Fast Forward To Today:
Oh well. It was all just crappy school works that I did at the last minute right before class. I have the important stuff archived on CD. Now the biggest question is, what to do with all that extra drive space (approx 260GB).
Misery loves company, so I appreciate the horror stories. A friend has loaned me their iPod, so I’ve taken the liberty of dumping all of my stuff onto it. He doesn’t actually have a computer that can connect to it, so I figure the unused hard drive space shouldn’t go to waste, eh?