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I was reading London Lite the other day, and there was an article about Nigella Lawson doing "Who Do You Think You Are?" It seems she thought she had Sephardi roots, but turned out to be Ashkenazi. The article helpfully defined Ashkenazim as "the lower-class cattle dealing Jews from Germany and Eastern Europe". We're not all bloody Tevye, you know.

There is a certain kind of Sephardi snobbery about Ashkenazim, which I've never liked; I absolutely hated Claudia Roden's Book of Jewish Food because of that; the Ashkenazi section is a third of the size of the Sephardi, not as well researched, and she's very dismissive of what she obviously sees as peasant food. (I think she actually goes so far as to say the main goal of Ashkenazi cookery is to serve the food hot!) Not that Ashkenazim are immune; when the Jews from the Middle East and North Africa arrived in Israel after independence, the Ashkenazi elite treated them as completely backwards.

Well, I have my new laptop!! Yay! I thought it MIGHT get here today, but didn't want to get my hopes up as the 'order' only went in at 17:00 Wednesday--might not have been time to ship yesterday. But get it I did.

Now the problem: My backup drive isn't working correctly :( Console threw up an error. Disk Utility can't repair, but it DOES see the volume, which means I have a good shot at fixing it. Problem is I can't find my damn copy of DiskWarrior! I remember packing it... :( Hmm, it was on the bookshelf, I remember that, and I packed it at the same time I was doing the books. So not my laptop bag. But if it's not in the computer junk bag, then where?

I said "to hell with it" and bought a new copy of DiskWarrior. It's a great program, it works, and I want those files.

It fails with an error :(

I Google and Macworld says "DiskWarrior won't work with Intel Macs; wait for an upgrade". Alsoft does NOT warn you of this--it says "no universal binary yet" on the main page, but http://www.alsoft.com/beforeyoubuy.html has nothing about "this won't even work on an Intel Mac". I feel screwed out of $90.

TechTool Deluxe IS updated for Intel, but doesn't see the drive. It must be a flaw in TechTool, because Disk Utility can see the drive; it just can't repair it.