Computer headaches

Argh… it’s been a couple of rough days. On Monday my computer had a “kernel panic” crash in the middle of the day, and I couldn’t get it to recover. Every time I restarted it, it would crash in the middle of boot up. It took me until yesterday to find the time to sit on the phone with the AppleCare people. Fortunately they were very patient, and helped me get my machine back (it appears that my airport card was unseated in some way). But I was amazed at how anxious I became in the interim. It’s not as if I don’t have access to other computers — and hence to email and the web, etc. — but my own is configured just as I need it to be, with all of the “automatic password filling in,” and the weblog entry plug-ins, etc. etc. etc. I think this was probably a good lesson in how interdependent I’ve become with it (note: not “dependent” but “interdependent”). In some ways this machine really is an extension of me, holding memory — and thus relationality — in some very important ways.

There were a lot of things I've wanted to comment on, the last few days, I'll have to try and retrieve them and do so.