Bummer!!! That is one of the worst things that can happen (except it's differrent if it's a Windowsô machine). How's your Home Insurance policy???

Aw, I'm sorry. What a total drag.

Consider this a virutal hug: {{{{hug}}}}

i have immortalized the memory of your titanium on my bog. may it rest in peace.

Bunny - I've told you, you cannot Tea Bag a Titanium! xoxoxox

Oh poor little Mac. Great writing (aggain!)

oh no - what a terrible way to go. i hope i don't drown in a cup of tea. i think it's very thoughtful of mr. helpful to have made a memorial for your titanium on his bog - he'll be visiting it often, i'm sure.

have a tissue and a hug - and i hope you didn't slip over in the snow.

John - thanks! Didn't think of the insurance policy (I'll have to look into that.)

Kat - thanks for the hug. I needed it!

Marcus - living together, eh? Hmm....

Mr. Helpful - you're so cool, thanks for that. I still need to blog about the Jezebel Diary (seems so 'after the fact' now!)

Geoffrey, you giraffe you. As if I wouldn't know. :-)

Daisy - thanks :-)

Zoe - snow? what snow?

cindy, when i called you, you said there was snow outside.

Zoe - right. There's no snow now, but we might have some RSN ... though it's snowing in my brain. :-)

Did you find someone to help resurrect the hard / soft drive? If you remove it from the TiBook and use a standalone case you may be able to recover it. I have done that before with laptop drives (I use a little drive case from OWC that has the standard IDE->Oxbridge->firewire doohickey and I just plug in old drives and then run disk repair utilities on them. A similar case (sans cable) should set you back about $US20 (much less than the genius bar price).

Oz, your geek is showing :-)

grep "Oz's brain" *
OWC? IDC? ---> ^old^new
man ls | more
/usr/bin/insert-dumb-look-here/doesnotcompute/

Sorry about the jargon. Let me try again. If you need to recover data from the hard disk, it may be possible to do so by pulling the hard drive out of the TiBook and putting it in a special firewire drive case (~$US20). You usually find these at places that sell upgrades for laptop drives. It is listed as an option for making your old disk usable. I have (in the past) used OWC (Other World Computing) who ship to australia and supply a variety of small drives for laptops.

The old drive clips into the case, the case plugs into your replacement Mac and you can try running disk repair on it. That often gets the disk to a state where you can copy the data off (and it may leave you with a nice external disk for emergency use later).

If I was local, I'd do it. If you haven't solved it by WWDC (end of June), find someone going to WWDC (in San Francisco) and I'll have a go at it then.

Sorry for the jargon. Did you find my brain in your files? (i.e. the 'grep "Oz's brain" *' would look for my brain in your files. If you find it, I'd like it back :-)