Snafu
I’ll just put the whole weekend-debacle up here as a bulleted list, i’m too exhausted for anything with real merit.
- The whole thing started on wednesday, when my ibook started randomly freezing. Later examination suggested kernel panics. Booted without extensions, zapped the pram, no signs of relief. Ran the hardware test that came with my ibook, ran the other hardware test that came with my apple care protection plan, no signs of faulty hardware. Things got continually worse over the next few days. Managed to grab a half-decent backup. On sunday the ibook didn’t even boot anymore, i started to brace myself for having it picked up and fixed with the prospect of going back to windows for a few days or possibly even weeks.
- On saturday at 5am my domain transfer to a new registrar came through. What i hadn’t expected was that my old registrar would also dispose of my dns records on his nameservers, so the site wasn’t reachable anymore. I slept late that day, with no working ibook waiting for me i couldn’t find any reason for getting out of bed, noticed that my site was down when i finally got up. Rushed through a chaotic site transition to textdrive and switched nameservers. Things should be more or less working around here by now, again sorry for any inconvenience caused. Again if you need to email me, please use my gmail address for now (firstname.lastname@gmail.com) or ping me on aim, screenname christoph179.
- Called apple support today. They couldn’t find any traces of me, my ibook or my apple care protection plan in their system. I started to panic. Fortunately the person on the other side of the line was extremely helpful, gave me instructions on how to activate my protection plan even though my laptop is out of its one-year-warranty by now and issued a cs-ticket so i can drop the defunct laptop at a service partner without having to remedy the protection plan issues beforehand. I’m still a little freaked out, but i’m slowly calming down. Really looking forward to my pilates course today, i need some soothing.
So it’s back to windows for a while. Gosh, i didn’t know my site looks that fucked up in internet explorer…