F***ing technology

I like computers. I think the internet is incredibly cool. Microsoft Word is a fantastic program and portable memory devices can be lifesavers. However...


...and this is a big however-I apparently am the only moron on the surface of the planet who did not know that there is a proper way to remove a portable memory device from a computer. How was I to know that you must eject a jump drive before you physically remove it from your USB port?! Today I learned that lesson the hard way. For my Political Communication class I typed two thirds of my midterm essay/exam on the 1952, 1956 and 1960 presidential campaigns. I saved my work to my jump drive with the intention of coming back to it later to complete 1960. (I probably only had about 2 or 3 more pages to go in order to complete the essay.) When I tried opening the file on my jump drive *POOF* it was gone. Corrupted. (Like Tricky Dick himself.)

The Geek Squad informed me that they aren't "authorized" to retrieve corrupted files. My options are limited at the moment, so it seems I am stuck retyping the whole thing. Did I mention I was quite happy with the work I had done on the essay thus far? Grrrrr. Googledocs might possibly become my new best friend.

As the election turns part deux

I can think of plenty of stupid things Sarah Palin has said and done. (I cannot believe the GOP couldn't come up with a better VP candidate than Palin.) But this weekend she dropped a doozy. She erroneously claimed that Barack Obama pals around with "terrorists". How desperate can the McCain campaign get?

I am currently doing a very tentative happy dance. While many polls have, over the past few days, been calling Florida as a tossup state, some are now saying that Obama is actually leading in Florida.