The leaky toilet (or why I kinda like Windows 98)

I sit here writing this on Ubuntu Hoary (linux) but my desktop is rocking some sweet Win98 love. Why? Well somehow I managed to corrupt the partition table on my external hard drive thus rendering it next to useless. After trying all sorts of ideas I couldn't get my data back. My windows machine would recognize the drive but it wouldn't read it, duh corrupted. I found this free program PC Inspector and it is working fairly well right now. I'm most concerned with recovering my music. It is recovering a lot of the files, but there are a lot new remixes (read files that have parts of other files in them now) that I will have to keep track of. Who knows maybe I will have to buy some of the music again, but I'd rather that than have to buy it all again (but it looks like lots of song are corrupt). Plus so far the inconsistencies seem to be in files that aren't that important. Who knows if I'll keep up this whole blog nonsense and I'm sure it won't be as funny or as good as others but who cares? And yes, Xanja is doing well.