In having a hard drive crash, I've been reloading the main system... all... day. Its something I have never really enjoyed - the time spent waiting for something to be ready, and the long periods of time it takes to download updates and code through the cocktail straw of a pipe I have in Trinidad. It is like watching refrigerated molasses ooze.

And yet, it is clean. It is the wiping of a system that had grown cluttered in ways that I had not appreciated in some time. A system that, in 2005, was new is once again new in 2008 - through the failure of a hard drive. And I find myself not wanting to install too much on it. It is light. It is fast. It is clean. It doesn't have the gigabytes of documents I had on it - thankfully, I had already backed those up. It doesn't have the years and years of emails stored away, it doesn't have all that junk I was slowly sifting through - some of the junk older than the computer itself.

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