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Sunday, February 03, 2008

Down....Not Out!

Currently our Radio Stream is Offline and all promotions/interviews/showcases/broadcasting have been put on Hold.......Temporarily.

An hour and a half before my show on NowLive.com, my Network Drive that housed everyones music, CRASHED!!

In a mad dash against the clock, (The Show Must Go On!)
I was able to put on a show that featured the newest artists, and the artists from Serge Ent. Group.
Had it not been for the last minute ripping of the awesome "Lehigh Valley Rocks!" 2 cd set, the last 2 hours of my show would have been shot.
Then, to top things off, NowLive.com was giving the listeners and callers into the show bad audio all night long.

Due to the fact that my services have always been free, I do not have the finances to purchase a new drive or data recovery services.
And of course, my warranty on the drive ended 31 days ago! (I hate Western Digital - I shoulda went Maxtor!)

I do have some backup CD's from the drive, and a stack of CD's that I can re-rip, but I do not have a drive capacity to hold such data.
And I know that I do not have some artists CD's, or a back up of their music. This is due to putting CD's into the iRock iRaq Promo Package.

So....where do I go from here?

I really can not do anything until I get a new hard drive.
At that point, I can start recovering from back ups and re-ripping CD's

Once I have gotten that far, I can get the station back online, and compile a list of artists music that I have.
And anyone wanting to rsend me their CD's at that time will be able to do so.

The biggest kicker of all is, I just bought a spindle of DVD's to do a major backup, the problem was, I was to busy doing
everything else, that I never had the time to get to it. : (

It has always been my standing to make iLike2Rock.net Free and self-funding.
That means the money that it generates, goes into buying software programs,hosting, bandwidth, etc.
Unfortunetly, the amount of money it makes is slim to none and slim never rode into town.

So, at this time, I have placed a notice on my home page with a PayPal button to take donations for a new hard drive.

Anyone and everyones support is greatly appreciated.

Thank you!
DJ Tom

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