Dara Berry

It finally happned. The PC gods brought down their wrath upon me for not obeying simple development rules.

THOU SHALT KEEP MORE THAN ONE COPY OF YOUR WORK BECAUSE THOU WILL DO SOMETHING STUPID

I did not follow this rule while working on my new WordPress theme on my desktop. For the sake of better sound on my laptop, I borrowed the speakers from my desktop. I slid my desktop out hundreds of times while it was on and I always carefully placed it back. This time… it wasn’t so careful.

As I placed my desktop back in it’s position, it dropped. Not far, but it still dropped. Immediately my MOBO starts beeping at me as if to say “You idiot.” Long story short, I killed my hard drive… with all of my work on it. So I buy a new hard drive. I install my OS, thinking I’m OK…. but no. My MOBO needs replaced.

My lipstick red Abit Falality MOBO with blinking lights that do absolutely nothing… needs replaced. I am heartbroken, almost as much as loosing all of my work.

Lesson Learned

So now, I am using my laptop to develop on while I shop for a new MOBO. I am purchasing an external terabyte hard drive as well as a smaller portable hard drive, so hopefully future disasters like this can be prevented.
So now you know why I missed my January release date. At least I don’t have to worry about not getting paid for it. LOL.

In the spirit of viral, here’s my own version of an lolcat. This is one of the kittens I recently adopted. There will be more pictures coming. Take it as a promise, or a threat. You either love lolcats or would rather watch the dancing hamsters page for hours on end.

Although the origional LOLcats is funny, my favorite is icanhazcheezeburger.

Hey there! Thanks for stopping by here so early! It’s only been forever, but I’ve finally ran out of excuses to rebuild my portfolio. Well.. this will be more than a portfolio. It will be my tribute to the obsession of all things web. There will be blogging, free stuff, tutorials… and everything that is design goodness.

Anyways, since this site isn’t done yet and you still came by anyway, I’ll give you a sneak peak of what I’m working on. This is my new theme I’m working on with Illustrator, and I will be making a template for WordPress. It is my interpretation of Web 2.0, grungy retro, with a dash of Tim Burton. I will also turn this into a CSS Zen Garden theme, as one of my goals is to create a Zen Garden theme and have it published.

In the mean time, I will slowly be adding content and widgets, so bear with me. Anyways… thanks for stopping by and visit me every now and again to check out all the goodies!

COMING January 2009!