Hi, I'm Mathew Hoy, chief sparrow wrangler at HellaBoss and co-host of The GAMES DAY Podcast! Let's be friends.

Hi, I'm Mathew Hoy!

I'm the CEO, CCO, CTO and CFO of HellaBoss, a red-hot creative laboratory based in London, Ontario, Canada.

HellaBoss has officially stopped working on others' jobs to focus on our own killer projects - like The GAMES DAY Podcast (you can now totally watch the show on our Vimeo channel!).

When I'm not working, I cuddle up with both my wonderful wife Jennifer and our superstar son, Ferris.

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    July 1

    Baby (don't) got back (up)

    After I got home from tonight’s awesome Canada Day party with Matt, Lisa, and all of our friends, I sat down to meet a friend on World of Warcraft.

    I got in the game and started playing. I met my friend and we were about to get our instance on when my iMac froze. The dreaded kernel panic overlay screen appeared and froze the computer to a grinding halt.

    I rebooted like it said to and nothing happened.

    I rebooted again. Nothing.

    I rebooted again and got a blank grey screen.

    I rebooted and put in the system install disc to load from it to do some disk first aid. That disc became stuck and the computer started to reboot itself over and over and over again. The new iMacs don’t have handy buttons to eject stuck discs (dear Apple team - it’s an internal feature - it really doesn’t ruin the asthetics of the unit).

    After the computer performed about 50 auto reboots (no exaggeration), suffered three more kernel panics, couldn’t deal with one stuck CD, and the screen was covered in a lot of sweat, my Intel iMac seems to be working fine again.

    Despite all of the keys I was holding down during startup, discs I inserted (and *gasp* tweezers I tried to use to eject the stuck disc), I decided to just let the computer run its course. In the end, it booted to a login screen and has since been working fine.

    During the whole experience, the only thing I could think was, “I shouldn’t have ignored that message from Bureau Mainframe (the name of the iMac) that Time Machine hadn’t backed up the hard drive for more than 10 days.”

    I tried to remember 10 days ago to see if losing 10 days worth of work would be a problem and of course, I couldn’t remember what I had for breakfast this morning.

    It’s always the way - you think, “ah, I’ll do some back up tomorrow night” and you never do it because you’re editing video, playing WOW, planning new Podcasts to do, and more.

    I’m going to start planning a new schedule for backups with Time Machine and leave the hard drive running and waiting to perform the fixes.

    BTW, missing data for those 10 days would have sucked - after things started working properly again (for now), I realized that I just imported all of our footage from this past weekend’s GDP marathon show (now called Overdose) and we might have lost it all.