So today I decided to go to Chenoy Trade Centre, Hyderabad’s official Fish Market For Computer-related Purchases, and buy a 50-pack of blank cds, so that I can clear my hard-disk of space, and also please assorted lj-friends\/ex-college seniors by finally burning them stuff they’ve been asking for. Everything was done, I also picked up a sexy-looking 100-cd case, and successfully controlled the urge to pop into Sangeet Saagar, and by 3, was back at home, eager to begin the burn session.<\/p>\n
Nero refused to work! It said ‘current program area empty’ and then ‘Could not perform fixation’ and then ‘Burn process failed at 8x’. Damn. That has indeed happened sometimes before, and so I restarted the writing at a different, slower speed. Nope, still didn’t work. I decided – ‘To hell with Nero!’ and downloaded something called DeepBurner, which is freeware, and is also quite small in size – the installer being only 2 MB. Installed, began burning. Refused to work.<\/p>\n
That’s when I realised that my three year-old CD writer has kicked the bucket. Which was a grusesome thing to happen, because I was so confident of its ability to carry on burning until the End of Time, that I hadn’t even thought<\/i> about such a thing happening. The first emotion, therefore, was one of panic – ‘My hard disk is going to overflow!’ and then ‘Udatta is gonna kill me – he’ll definitely never believe this excuse.’ And to this the fact that I was, post-Persepolis2 and Universal-CD-sale, officially Over-Budget for the month.<\/p>\n
Then it struck me – What perfect timing! I can now go ahead and buy a DVD writer without the slightest amount of remorse and a clean conscience. An Omen! Here I was, worried about the intricacies of having THREE optical disc drives in my machine, and one of them is out of the picture.<\/p>\n
I shall go out for a walk tomorrow. Maybe a bag of money will fall out the sky. You can never be too sure of the mysterious Ways of Fate, you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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