Sunday, September 15, 2002
Astoundingly, the iBook lives again, this time thanks to Art the Mac tech guy, with some help from Rogue and Byron. What I thought would be a saga of days took only a couple of hours. It's not completely done, but not only was I able to get it up and running again, the "lost" article was even saved, with nary a scratch. It would seem that I was the target of a rare Mac-specific virus, a worm e-mailed to me by someone who'd rather I shut up about Farscape. The idiot actually wrote me earlier this evening from an anonymous remailer to take credit. Kind of frelling incredible, isn't it? I guess that's what comes of being too public about what sort of machine I use online. At any rate, now I'm only logging on via Jennifer's computer, which shall remain forever undescribed and unspecified.
I've finished the piece for sfsite.com and sent it off to the editor; it's supposed to go up tomorrow.
After today, I'm not game for a long entry. Suffice it to say, I'm very relieved and that sick feeling that accompanies losing something you've written has left me. I've only ever had that happen once before, when I was working on The Five of Cups way back in 1992. That time it was my fault. I didn't have my own Mac in those days, and was using an SE II in the computer labs at school. I got up to go to the restroom, forgot to save, and in my absence someone shut off my computer. I lost about ten pages. I thought it was the end of the world at the time.
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