Over the past week, Shannon and I moved from Brookline, MA down to Washington, DC, hence the silence here at Doing it Ourselves. Yesterday, I penned a long post that went into some of the tools and tricks that I found were critical to making the move as painless as possible -- and as I was doing a final read on the post, my Powerbook hard disk crashed. Hard. (Seriously, it's making noises like a jet engine.) So I'm off to the Apple Store tomorrow morning to see what they can do for me, and I'll try to get that post up as soon as my depression lifts.

(Not-so-funny fact: I backed up all of my computers that were making the move in the day or two before the truck arrived. But, since my laptop was going to be with me rather than on the truck, I didn't back it up -- and it's the only computer that is now dead as a doornail. I have a backup from late February or early March, so I'm in OK shape, but it's a lesson learned.)