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I can’t believe how much myself and Erik Levander have in common; it is just spooky. Parallel lives, pretty much. I was reading about how he had been working on this album for years, when a fatal hard drive failure sent it to the great virtual trashcan in the sky; then just this week, I became locked out of a spreadsheet I had been carefully cajoling into a state of analytical irrefutability, after I forgot the password. I had worked on that for hours. It had pivot tables and everything. Now that can’t be just coincidence, can it? Given his success at fundraising to attempt a recovery of the files, I’m going to try something similar. Except instead of money, I’m asking for donations of possible passwords. I’ve gone through all my usual ones - Bacharach and David song titles, mainly - but to no avail. Any words donated which don’t solve the problem will be recycled into my next review (believe me, you’ll never notice the difference). Help me out; it’ll take me at least half an hour to redo all that hard work. Read the rest of this entry »