Top 100 Good Things...

... about wiping your hard drive and "returning your computer to factory settings".

1. You get a chance add some order to all those files you've been needing to reorganize.

2. You don't have to figure out which links in your favorites you should delete.

3. Those programs that you never use that were just taking up space on your hard drive? They're GONE!

4. You have a valid excuse for not answering your brother's (mother's, any family member's) e-mail.

5. You have a little more time to figure out a decent word in that online Scrabble game you're playing.

6. You can stay away from the Internet for a while to get some real work done (huh, huh, TBWN, right?)

7. Finally get rid of all the porn -- at least until you get on the Internet again.

8. Your computer seems to run so much faster.

9. You never realized you have such a large hard drive.

10. You have an excuse for not being killed on HALF LIFE - the extreme Internet tournament this weekend.

11. Plenty of excuses for MIAing from WPR.

12. You know those games that you deleted from your computer because you were wasting too much of your writing time playing them? They're BAAACK! (Barb, why are you pointing that taser at me?)

13. When you finally get back on line, the backlog of e-mail makes you feel popular.

14. Until you realize that of that e-mail backlog 1 in 5 messages is spam inviting you to learn how to enlarge a body part that you do not possess.

14. Until you realize that of that e-mail backlog 1 in 5 messages is spam inviting you to learn how to enlarge a body part that you do not possess.

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Brain?


(I'm speaking for myself, of course)

15. You have to reconstruct all of your WIPs (oh, wait, you backed your work up? Lucky you...) and your skill level is much better now than it was.

14. Until you realize that of that e-mail backlog 1 in 5 messages is spam inviting you to learn how to enlarge a body part that you do not possess.

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16: Until you realize that 495 out of the 496 messages in the backlog are junk mail, and the other one is from your ISP telling you that your mailbox is over the limit.

17: You get to once again go through the joy of uninstalling all the extra software that came with the computer that you never wanted in the first place.

18. You get to pull an all-nighter in order to rewrite that homework assignment you'd spent weeks working.

19. Your friends send you lots of neat pictures you've never seen before because they're not certain which ones you lost.


(Edited to appease the goddess of sentence structure.)

20. Your cookies folder is small again.

21. You can once and for all get rid of that Barney mp3.