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Perils of computers
Dec. 3rd, 2007 12:36 pmTo comprehend the disaster that was this morning, you have to step back in time to yesterday evening. After I had spent some time researching today's stories and writing them up, I transferred the files to my work drive. I do all the work on my home C-Drive because the main server does a lot of updating and archiving on Sunday evening, which slows down access to the office drives badly.
So, I get into the office this morning and open up the relevant folder. And what's in there?
Not today's issue, for a start.
Somehow I had contrived to transfer over the research and source notes (links to newspaper stories, etc) rather than my own, lovingly crafted work.
Whoops.
That left me about an hour and a half to get an issue together from my original notes. Bleeagh.
Well, I did it (once you've typed something once you can type it again considerably faster than the original took), but it made for an uncomfortable time.
To make matters worse, I have a snapped quad helix floating around the roof and left side of my mouth (the right hand side remains resolutely attached to my back tooth, so unless I snap that bit off as well, I have to suffer until the dentist can see me tomorrow). At least that appointment will give the dentist a chance to tighten the chains attached to the two canines, and we should know by the end of the year whether one or both is fused to the jawbone.
Not that I have any idea what the prognosis is if this turns out to be the case, apart from a general "oh fuck, I wouldn't start from here".
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One might think that the third apparent piece of bad news, that No IQ has been booted off the IP Network for a week, would be the final nail in the coffin of a week to forget. But this turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
Despite ballsing things up on the registration front (somehow I managed to register for Betfred Casino rather than the poker site, so I missed out on 550 bonus points before it was manually switched over), my first few days playing on the IP network with a new ID have been petrifyingly successful. Is it just a variance fluke? Or is it a big advatange to shift to an unknown name? Or is it that many of the No IQ players are just sitting it out for a week, making the IP Network considerably looser than it normally is?
Whatever, I've been killing the game for a few days now, four-tabling at $100 buy-in to work off the Betfred deposit (which is roughly the same as the No IQ rakeback) as quickly as possible.
The "deposit bonus" is little more than 50% rakeback, by my calculations, and this is meant to be one of the most generous offers out there!
But it did make me think that there's a profit here in just moving from IP skin to IP skin, living off first-time deposit offers. The downside is that you only accumulate points at the lowest level (rather than piling them on as you do at level four, which is where I am with No IQ), but I think that this is more than made up for by various deposit freerolls, access to the "Beginners" tables and the benfit of a new name.
Clearly there were quite a few No IQ players who did make the migration for a week, because the Beginners' tables have been the tightest of the lot for the past couple of days.
I've come up with a couple of new techniques that have worked well for me in the past week. One of them definitely has as part of it the saying "unexpolitable is not necessaruly optimal". There's an easy counterplay to what I'm doing, but it's so left-field that, for the moment, it's a licence to print money. Sometimes there are advantages to playing at this level.
PJ
So, I get into the office this morning and open up the relevant folder. And what's in there?
Not today's issue, for a start.
Somehow I had contrived to transfer over the research and source notes (links to newspaper stories, etc) rather than my own, lovingly crafted work.
Whoops.
That left me about an hour and a half to get an issue together from my original notes. Bleeagh.
Well, I did it (once you've typed something once you can type it again considerably faster than the original took), but it made for an uncomfortable time.
To make matters worse, I have a snapped quad helix floating around the roof and left side of my mouth (the right hand side remains resolutely attached to my back tooth, so unless I snap that bit off as well, I have to suffer until the dentist can see me tomorrow). At least that appointment will give the dentist a chance to tighten the chains attached to the two canines, and we should know by the end of the year whether one or both is fused to the jawbone.
Not that I have any idea what the prognosis is if this turns out to be the case, apart from a general "oh fuck, I wouldn't start from here".
+++++
One might think that the third apparent piece of bad news, that No IQ has been booted off the IP Network for a week, would be the final nail in the coffin of a week to forget. But this turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
Despite ballsing things up on the registration front (somehow I managed to register for Betfred Casino rather than the poker site, so I missed out on 550 bonus points before it was manually switched over), my first few days playing on the IP network with a new ID have been petrifyingly successful. Is it just a variance fluke? Or is it a big advatange to shift to an unknown name? Or is it that many of the No IQ players are just sitting it out for a week, making the IP Network considerably looser than it normally is?
Whatever, I've been killing the game for a few days now, four-tabling at $100 buy-in to work off the Betfred deposit (which is roughly the same as the No IQ rakeback) as quickly as possible.
The "deposit bonus" is little more than 50% rakeback, by my calculations, and this is meant to be one of the most generous offers out there!
But it did make me think that there's a profit here in just moving from IP skin to IP skin, living off first-time deposit offers. The downside is that you only accumulate points at the lowest level (rather than piling them on as you do at level four, which is where I am with No IQ), but I think that this is more than made up for by various deposit freerolls, access to the "Beginners" tables and the benfit of a new name.
Clearly there were quite a few No IQ players who did make the migration for a week, because the Beginners' tables have been the tightest of the lot for the past couple of days.
I've come up with a couple of new techniques that have worked well for me in the past week. One of them definitely has as part of it the saying "unexpolitable is not necessaruly optimal". There's an easy counterplay to what I'm doing, but it's so left-field that, for the moment, it's a licence to print money. Sometimes there are advantages to playing at this level.
PJ
