Computer Addiction

I admit I have an addiction to the internet. Think about it. To some degree, we all do. At least those of us who blog!! And then of course, there is Facebook, Twitter, Plurk, Stumble, Digg, AIM, Delicious, etc.........

But, here we go again. Any of you who are regular readers of my blog know that I have been having Issues with a capital "I" with my computers for quite some time. Oh, I was so surprised and excited when my husband got me a new Dell laptop for my birthday. Five days after I got it, the hard drive crashed. I did all the diagnostics online with their Technical Support people and the answer was.....hard drive DEAD. Must return and replace hard drive. OK. So I went without my new laptop for another week. Got along ok using my little Fujitsu Lifebook that is a thousand years old, but at least it works.

Received the new hard drive from Dell, installed it, reloaded ALL the software yet again. And here we are...less than two weeks and I get the dreaded ERROR MESSAGE tonight that there is NO DRIVE DETECTED!!! And I quote: Test Results : Pass. Error code 0141. Msg: Error code 2000-0141. Msg: No drive detected. The given error code and message can be used by Dell Technical Support to help diagnose the problem. Do you want to continue testing? Yes or No or Retry PRESS ESC TO ABORT TESTING".

After re-booting, the computer continued to work.

Note to Self:
Do NOT buy a Dell Laptop. They do not have reliable hard drives.

I feel SICK.