2011 — 24 May: Tuesday

Some Brahms1 to accompany my breakfast cereal, then I'm off on the road again, lugging a 4TB load over to Mike — said load being the four drives that will repopulate a Buffalo Terastation for me and, long-term, make my network storage and safe backup life complete. I hope. I also had a brief, interesting, chat at Novatech yesterday about the readiness and/or advisability of SSD drives for use in domestic PCs.2 Looks promising.

Last night's (video) entertainment was another dose or three of "House". I will defer sorting out my next photo of Christa until I'm back. Gotta dash. Things to do, people to see, places to go, not enough time :-)

After noon, already?

I've a sneaking suspicion Mr Postie's latest package (narrowly escaping the HM Customs import duty limit, thank goodness) may be tonight's entertainment, in all its 1080p/24 glory and 118 minutes 28 seconds running time (not counting extras):

Blu-ray

Tea time, yet!

It's 18:14 and still sunny and breezy. Recently back from the Garmin UK place near Totton, preceded by a fruitful trip to Asda...

DVDs

Sadly, our next few walks are going to have to be on routes we remember, as Mike's hand-held GPS will take about 9 working days to repair, or swap out. We've pencilled one in for Thursday and I've already grilled the sausages for my sandwich. Meanwhile, those four 1TB drives are busy doing stuff in their new Terastation home, but are not yet ready for prime time. Since I've heard nothing from Novatech yet about Blackbeast this is moot.

Having watched "Camille"3 I'm now enjoying all the Dylan music Gideon Coe is playing on BBC 6Music, what with it being His Bobness's 70th birthday.

  

Footnotes

1  I know shamefully little of his music.
2  I learned only recently that Junior's been using one in his MacBook Pro for some months. But having one in a desktop system could make just as much sense. Apparently you should disable the system paging file to stop constant rewriting to the same area of the 'disk'. With enough RAM and the simple demands I make on my system I don't see that as an issue.
3  Which kept vaguely reminding me of the Robert Zemeckis film "Death becomes her" but without most of the humour.