GAH!

[rmd]

i'm going to seattle today. i leave for the airport around 1430 - 1500. at 1130, i went to turn on my palm pilot to get my packing list and discovered that the palm battery was completely dead. after charging it for a few minutes, i found out all the data was gone.

the last time i synced it at home was over a week ago. i did manage to get nearly all of the data back, with a bit of judicious scp'ing from my desktop machine at work (where i had synced it yesterday).

and i'm glad i found this problem at 1130 instead of, say, at the airport when i went to look for my record locator. (i've got paper backups of things like that, but still.)

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[madbodger.livejournal.com]

It happened to a friend of mine, too, and her computer had succumbed to virii. So I removed the drive, put in my mac, read her backup files, and trying to synch from there. Then I find out that the Mac Palm format is different from the PC Palm format, and they won't read each others' files. Further, the PC software mangles the data when it exports in a portable format.