Detour: Paving in progress

There comes a time in every person’s life that they need to make an important decision.  For me, that day is today.

I am going to backup my data and pave my Windows XP personal desktop.  This box has served me well for 2 years, but it has gotten to the point where things aren’t adding up like they used too.  For instance, I was able to play Battlefield 2 for about 2 weeks, then it won’t let me start single player maps anymore.  iTunes occasionally hangs up and gives me the middle finger.  And, I have reripped all my CD’s at variable bit rate for better quality, and the machine would just randomly freeze midway through a rip.

I think the key to its longevity has been to keep it clean (no kids games, wife’s stuff) and have good anti-spam and anti-virus.  I honestly think that in the last 4 months iTunes and Battlefield have done some funky mojo to it, and now it isn’t as stable.

I’ll start later today, see you on the other side….