go back

Last night my home laptop decided it did not want to start up correctly for some unknown reason. I had not installed anything or changed anything. Oh fuck.

Enter Norton GoBack, a nifty little part of Norton Utilities that lets you literally go back to an image of your hard drive from a previous snapshot point.

Since everything was fine at 5 AM yesterday, I picked that point. 20 Minutes later, I was back in business. No drama (OK, minimal drama). Buy it, it's worth it!

Ran Norton Utilities, fixed the gremlins, and went on my merry way to go spend a quiet evening walking the dogs and reading Cryptonomicon as G-Hopp and D were in NOLA for the day (well, by that time, on their way back).

Anyway, Norton SystemWorks is well worth the money, it has saved my sorry ass many times. Yay Peter Norton, uebergeek!