The Noblesvillain

After the last post, I thought the picture looked familiar.  I went into the photo archives and found...

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Same park, same clothes, nearly the same age.  Mark trades his hat for Adam's bib (and a mobile phone can't compete with the image quality of the Canon Digital Rebel), but otherwise...

Here's Adam's on a park swing.  He doesn't swing much...more of a sway for now.

And Mark likes to keep things lively!

I've finally gotten a number of pictures off my mobile phone.  It's time to upload them a bit at a time.

March, 2006: Mark in his element.

The past two weeks I've been fighting computer troubles.  The troubles began when a fan in the computer case started making a ruckus.  Kicking computer equipment may not remedy each and every problem, but it did quiet the fan.  In a perhaps unrelated event, the hard drive started misbehaving.  Not to be intimidated by a situation that encourages me to buy a new, bigger, faster hard drive (we wouldn't want to suffer data corruption, would we?), I did so and made a full backup of the troublesome drive.

Today I type this on a computer with a new hard drive, new processor, new motherboard, but with most of the files recovered from the failed drive and the corrupted backup.  I think I'll make a new rule--never touch your backup!  The tale of woe is one I'll save for those patient enough to listen to me spout about mbr's, Linux live CD's, MFT's, backup MFT's, corrupt MFT's, etc.

The good news is that I'm up-and-running again, TheWife didn't lose any of her important files, and I have yet another new hard drive.

Here's an obligatory cute picture.

Here he is: Cinco de Marko