Sunday, April 25, 2010

Some days

Some days you're genuinely better off in bed. Everything from the morning onwards seems to go a little off, by the end of the day you're nothing short of miserable. I suppose it's life's way of waking you up and reminding you that you're always going to be dealing with one thing or another. Stop sulking, get over it and move on. We've all got too much going on in our lives to waste time or mental effort being in a grump about things that shoulda/woulda/coulda been...

Kam

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Backups of your Backups

Bah! I just backed up my laptop to an external USB disk so that I can reformat (and install Windows 7). Having completed those shennanigans, I've just reconnect my external drive and I'm painfully listening to the thunk-thunk-noise-of-drive-doom. I am unhappy. It's way too early in my day for me to be suffering from this type of misery. There's nothing vital that I haven't got backed up elsewhere, but 30 Gb worth of slowly collected stuff has just perished. My RAID5 NAS is full, and I'm investing in another RAID array this weekend. Bah.

Kam