Fighting corruption.

Synchronicity strikes again: I have spent the last ten days battling corruption in both my virtual and actual lives.

On the 25th of January I composed an item for my blog. When I came to post it I got the message that there was an unknown error preventing its being published. I was not unduly concerned as I’d received the same message once before some months ago and had solved the problem by repairing my permissions file. This time, however, that strategy didn’t work and after scouring the forums and ‘chatting’ to an Apple employee I found that my domain file had become corrupted. I could read the file but couldn’t publish it. And I hadn’t backed it up! Consequently, I’ve spent the last ten days copying the material from the corrupt file into a new domain file via Pages. A bitter lesson learnt: always back-up your files.

   Meanwhile back in the real world my Mighty Mouse had given up the ghost and I’d ordered a Magic Mouse to replace it. On the 27th I tracked the order, only to discover that according to the couriers it had been delivered on the 25th and signed for by someone called Mancini. I assumed this was a made-up name, but when I looked in the ‘phone book I discovered that it was my neighbour Mimi’s, surname. However, when I called round, Mimi knew nothing about the package. I therefore contacted the couriers, explaining that the package hadn’t arrived and Mimi hadn’t signed for it. They promised to investigate. That afternoon the package arrived, brought not by an employee of the couriers but by a chap in a van belonging to a computer company. He ‘explained’ that the courier had asked him to bring it as it was snowing in Montefalcone. True it was snowing; but it hadn’t been on the 25th! When the couriers rang me later that afternoon I told them all about the dodgy circumstances attached to the package’s eventual arrival. I guess someone will be getting fired.