Dramatic events in the thinking is the new black house hold this week, when my personal computer began to sound as if it were being powered by a russian hamster on a tread wheel. Unfortunately it was the hard drive in my 3 year old mac mini that gave up the ghost.
Apparently living in and powering my mac-mini
Frankly at the time, an utter horrendo disaster. Although I regularly back work up, and managed to salavge all my thesis and teaching work, I still lost some of my itunes and photo data. It’s a painfull lesson to learn as I’ve spent several hours already this week, loading CDs into itunes and rummaging around for old software disks and memory cards. But thanks to some help from my friends I now have a suped up 160GB, and modded mac-mini as good as a brand new one. And I have discovered a great Mac Mini civilization camped out there on the t’interweb of streams.
Even more nail biting perhaps was the return of my TV husband Jack Bauer, in a one off special 24 Redemption. Damn It! This has certainly wet my appetite for Day 7 which is on in January. I’m now beside myself with excitement.
I always base the upgrade of my mobile phone on what ever Jack is using, so the writers strike in the US has meant a delay and me being stuck with a rather rubbish motorola razor for some time and looking like a right old laggard. Jack I am waiting for you.
sorry Bruce Parry - there can be only one. xx
Are you a fan of ridiculous analogies? Such as: “if all the rubbish marketing people speak was physical waste we’d have a landfill problem the same size as the planet Venus”? That sort of thing… well, in light of your storage problem here’s one of those kind of things about the modern hard drive:
“Consider this little comparison: if the read/write head were a Boeing 747, and the hard-disk platter were the surface of the Earth:
* The head would fly at Mach 800
* At less than one centimeter from the ground
* And count every blade of grass
* Making fewer than 10 unrecoverable counting errors in an area equivalent to all of Ireland.
from: http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/476-6-seagate-hard-drive.html
RYC (regarding your comment): Hello!