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 [Antionline.com] Surviving a Disk Crash--a Checklist - Antionline Forums - Maximum ...: Exactly the same thing a well-trained pilot does when facing a serious problem: Take out your emergency checklist and try to set things right--one step at a time.

 [Mrbrown.com] mrbrown: L'infantile terrible of Singapore: Musings: We had a fairly smooth ride and did not get any train sickness but Ginny, my wife (or mrs brown to some friends) had a little gas in the tummy (Ginny has a stomach that knows when it is going on a trip and gets really excited as a result -- it was extremely annoying especially during our long honeymoon in the States) and I handed her some antacid, to which she shouted "DO I HAVE TO CHEW THIS?", which caused most of the passengers to have minor heart seizures there and then. She had her headphones on and her Discman blasting Chinese love songs directly into her ears and she thought she was whispering the question to me.

 [Grotto11.com] Peeve Farm: The hard disk light isn't blinking. My mouse still works, though, so I use it to mark my place on the progress bar and take the CD out to try some more troubleshooting on the first machine, my desktop box-- the one with four years' worth of archived work data, all my e-mail, all my software, all my test tools and so on-- the one that is currently a screen full of apostrophes.

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