The end of my Thinkpad?

I am on a public computer right now, because my trusty old Thinkpad is not doing too well. On Friday it gave the blue screen of death, then restarted, and proceeded to go through a nasty disk check. Lots of unrecoverable bad sectors.

At this point my only thought was, “Oh sh** I have porn on my machine.” And I needed to delete as much as I can, before I ask someone to fix my computer (you know those tech people can always dig up traces of teh pr0n).

When I tried to log in, my profile was “corrupted,” and the computer logged me in under a temporary profile. And I did all my deleting, and emailing important files to my Gmail.

Then I updated Symantec Antivirus and ran a virus scan, which found — nothing!

Ok, I thought, maybe it’s contained, somehow. But after using it for about a day, the blue screen of death showed up again, like a poltergeist. And so I shut the damn thing off and put it away so that I can have someone look at it on Tuesday.

On the bright side, it has increased my productivity tremendously.

I guess this is also my long-winded apology for the relative lack of posts in the next few days.