Bargain with Death?
Its Saturday, 23 August 2008, 0800am. Since its the 3rd anniversary from the purchasing date of my personal computer, I’ve decided to format it , or rather my harddrive because you can’t really format a PC. There’s no particularly spectacular reason for doing so. It’s more on a whim than anything else. Perhaps the most outstanding influence to the decision is that my CD-ROM refuses to work properly inspite of my many attempts to remedy it. It has been acting strangely since I swapped out the old motherboard (after that fiasco with my LG monitor). At any rate, my intention is to zero fill the harddisk, repartition it 50:50, pop in Windows XP and hope that nothing breaks down in the process. This is my virgin show though, so that's no guarantee that i will be definitely succeed, there’s never any guarantees anyway. For all I know, and considering my spate of bad karma as of late, my PC will blow up just shy of completion (most likely at 99.99%). Hopefully, the exploding PC is n...