Paying for past sins

It’s been a while since my last post so I thought I should update everyone on whats going on around here, what I’ve been up to, and some things I’m considering for DavidMeade.com

Firstly, let me explain how I got derailed in the Semanal project. At the last hours of week two, I made a mistake … I decided to install Windows via bootcamp on my Mac. Long story short: it didn’t work. But, not only did it not work, my Mac wouldn’t even boot up to its own MacOS anymore!! I fought with this over the course of the next week or so with no success until finally I called for help and Verdi kindly gave me a tip which seemed to snap my mac out of it and got me back to the MacOS again. So I could boot to MacOS again … but now I had (have) a 5GB partition on my mac that is neither mac nor PC … just useless space. I tried over part of the following week to fix it all up but couldn’t … so I reluctantly decided I should just give up.

Kinda pissed off at the whole Mac thing I decided to go back to the PC for video editing for a while. As I started to get back into the swing of things in Windows I realized that for some reason my external FW800 RAID drive wasn’t showing up in Windows anymore! (This is the drive I store all my video stuff on).

This was devastating. I store everything on that drive. I mean when you want to save something where else do you put it but the external FW800 RAID drive?! I had to get this back. I troubleshooted it for God-only-knows-how-long … different ports, different FW cards, different cables, different computers … the bottom line: the drive was dead. I lost everything on it.

So now I’d suffered a failure of both my Mac and my PC … and lost my storage drive in the process.

Besides not wanting to go out and buy another RAID drive ($$), I just didn’t have the heart to continue fighting with technology or try to repopulate all my media files somehow … so I just stopped doing anything that would remind me of all the work I had to do in this regard … which included videoblogging.

I’ll get back to it soon enough … but that’s why I haven’t been posting.

I have however been doing other things to keep my videoblogging-karma rating up. For example, I released a quick wordpress plug-in that the Semanal.org folks needed done. There’s even talk of an impromptu trip to visit another fellow videoblogger Heath Parks (aka The Batman Geek).

In other news, I was clicking around the interwebs today came across an interesting idea which may or may not inspire more text based blogs from me in the future … but its got the wheels spinning so stay tuned.