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Thursday, October 9, 2014

Family sickness

Hello there, dear XKCD-SUCKS reader

At this point you may be wondering why Died In A Blogging Accident is almost two weeks overdue for the next update. I' be honest, I was not looking forward to writing this, partly because theatrocious keyboard on my Nexus 7 cant seem to type without a second and a half of lag. I'd tell you the full story, but you probably don't want to hear it.

In short, my laptop broke down. After ruling out the RAM and the fucking SATA cable as the cause of the problem, we found that the culprit was a faulty SSD made by OCZ - go figure.

Since then, my laptop has been basically useless, as I can't get it running without a hard drive. And I'd left my backup drive in my parents' house, thinking I wouldn't need it anymore because all my backups are in 'The Cloud' - HUGE MISTAKE.

My housemate actually has a laptop with two hard drives - dont ask me why - for some reason he just needs two. And he still wouldn't let me borrow one. What a prick.

It took TEN DAYS for the new SSD to arrive, and when it did it was 32 gigabytes SMALLER than the one it was supposed to replace. That was my last straw with that company. I sent the drive back to OCZ, still in its original packaging, demanding that they pay me a cash refund. (Seriously, fuck that company.)

Dreck happens. And I was due for a new laptop anyway. But since I no longer need it for studies, I could not justify the expense to my (rich, Jewish) parents. That means I'll have to wait until Christmas* to have a working laptop again. 

Until then, I'm actually surprised that I can get by on a tablet+phone for like, 90% of the things I'd do on a computer (can anyone recommend a good DeviantArt client for Android?). However I'd be damned if I'm writing a novel on this thing. No matter what keyboard I install, my Nexus becomes a lag-ridden piece of dreck when I try and do any sort of long form writing on it. If you're reading this now, it's be ause I haven't yet thrown it against a wall in frustration.

To be honest, I kind of needed a break from DiaBA anyway. Rest assured though, Rob and friends will be back on the first Sunday after Christmas (28th December - mark your calendars), and I will update weekly from then on.

Thanks you for understanding, my patient fan. You're probably the only person who bothered to read this. 

*Yes, even yids celebrate Christmas.

18 comments:

  1. to have a decent ammount of knowledge about computers, it surprises me you are stupid enough to use "the cloud." Maybe you are being punished for your stupidy. I curse you with 100 years of bad luck.

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    1. Can my housemate be punished too?

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    2. Also I have a backup drive. If I so desired, I could buy a train ticket, and fetch it from my parents' house. Or I could just buy a cheap hard disk, or accept the solid state dreck that OCZ gave me. But at this point it's not about the drive. It's about the princple.

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  2. I AM THE FAN!!! YES!!!! YOU FINALLY NOTICED ME! #nohomo

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    1. Aw! If i could only have one fan in the world I would choose for it to be you. (Admit it: you were the one who posted 2:50?)

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  3. Outrageous. Not good enough. Disgusting. It is amazing that the Vatican continues to argue the existence of a god. It is amazing that IS or ISIS or ISIL or whatever are killing people for the good of one. You have clearly proven there is none.

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  4. Like all the web comics and blogs about web comics that have peaced out before you, you're going on a "temporary" hiatus that you won't come out of. Because you're out of ideas, even hilariously bad ones, so bad that they go to hilarious, then just back to unfunny again. You're the 540 kick flip of the bad idea world.

    I'll still be here, scrolling, judging ...

    (Thanks for killing me off early nignog)

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  5. Oi, vey, where are you? This kind of BULLSHIT INCOMPLETENESS is not acceptable. Your harrowing family tragedy or whatever is tl;dr but can't you call Dr. Ann Apolis to fix things? I'm sure he'll do pro bono work or toil under the yoke of the National Health SOCIALISM or whatever you Brits call it.

    (twist: I live near the Isle of Wight)

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  6. 28th December, hmm?

    We're waiting, guy person.

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  7. Terrible Terrible Terrible

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  8. So did you die in a blogging accident

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  9. It's pretty much confirmed now that Jon Levi is worse than Hitler.

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  10. Jon, if you are reading this, FUCK YOU FOR NOT UPDATING. I read and re-read the first 8 chapters of your novel because they were the closest thing I had to true meaning in life. And now you stall me for a year because of some bullshit about a computer. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY TIMES I'VE BEEN REFRESHING THIS PAGE?!?!?

    FUck you and fuck your fake ending and fuck you forever.

    FUUUUCK!

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