I’m here in National Harbor, MD attending a conference, the place is just breath taking in its design although the hotel is pretty much the only thing out here right now. From the looks of it they are trying to build a little town around the hotel. I don’t know how that will go but in this economy it looks like a big risk.
Speaking of big risks, I took one when I went on this trip and didn’t bring with me an install disk of Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard). To be honest, I usually don’t do this since my laptop is usually rock solid. Yesterday however, it gave up the ghost. The laptop will boot up and I’ll get to the log in screen but when I try to log in I get the “spinning beachball of doom”, and it just sits there for hours if I would let it.
I was able to do some diagnostics on the physical hard drive (thanks to a co-worker that had a bootable external drive) and although there were some errors, they were repairable and I thought that the worst was over. But when I started up the laptop again, I ran into the same problem as before, leading me to believe that it is my OS which got corrupted and not my hard drive that is the problem.
As fortune would have it, I’m in the technology business and I am planning on going to lunch with one of my local partners in the D.C. metro area and they have offered to bring an install disk with them so I can reinstall. I also had another local partner offer to bring one over to me since he lives about 10 miles away.
Regardless of those facts, the lesson has been learned and I won’t be going anywhere again with out an install DVD. An ounce of prevention is really worth a pound of cure.
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