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Kshema's 7 Quick Takes Friday (Volume 19)

--- 1 --- Last week I took a break from writing. At times I feel that life is becoming lifeless. My routine does not have scope to include anything else in between office-eat-sleep-office; so much so that on Sundays sometimes I am total loss of thoughts and ideas to pass my time constructively as I feel too tired to explore anything new. --- 2 --- "Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred?" -- Japanese Haiku Data loss, certainly! My pen drive is a toast. I used to store huge amount of data in that. It has been reliable for past six years. A tiny power fluctuation that resulted in restarting my PC (to which it was connected) rendered it lifeless. I tried all fixes like attempting to format, both in Windows as well as on Linux; all possible data recovery tools on the net; sifting through a plethora of fora discussions. Alas! what is lost is lost forever now. I could recover some data partially from various other so...