2012 — 11 March: Sunday

There are days1 when all a chap seems to do is spend his time retrieving data off a poorly disk for a pair of chums. It's a filthy job, but someone has to do it. The Mounce data recovery service runs at well over 99% and even includes free Trojan removal.

Not that there wasn't plenty of reading and music going on, more or less in parallel. But now, at 00:41, it's time for a bit more sleep.

Happy birthday...

... to BBC Radio 6Music. Ten years today. And now just over 1,000,000 listeners. It's everything a radio channel should be and, although I don't like all its output, it's pretty close to ideal. I'd characterise it as an extended version of Radio 3's "Late Junction" with more emphasis on the 'rock' end of the spectrum. And regular access to the amazing archive of live sessions that the Philistines have yet to erase. The licence fee is worth it for just this one audio companion. Forget TV. Who needs TV?

For reasons...

... possibly better left unexplored I was snooping around the Windows 8 Customer preview stuff, and tripped over this apparently "newsworthy" (their description) item:

Logo

"Humble, yet confident." Well, the kerning's pretty good.

Hubris?

I'm forever surprising myself by some of the junk I've kept. Here's a decade-old little gem from a chap named Steve Mills (who, I don't doubt, continues to ascend IBM's greasy pole):

...But IBM needs Software Group to lead, and the IT industry expects us to play a leadership role.
So, we cannot falter now. We have worked too hard to become successful. Heading into the fourth quarter, we need to strengthen our focus on customers and come together as never before...

Date: October 2002


(My emphasis.)

There is invariably...

... more than one way to skin a cat. Which is why, instead of copying from external drive #1 on USB2 port #1 to external drive #2 on USB2 port #2 — and seeing a data transfer speed of nearly 6MB/second — I'm choosing to copy to, and then from, one of BlackBeast's internal SATA drives. The number of bits being shovelled around doubles, of course, but the overall data transfer time is rather less than half what it would have been.

Mind you, it's getting near the time when I should invest in some USB3 external drives since my latest motherboard has several suitable ports on it.

Tomorrow's walk...

... should help blow the cobwebs away. Meanwhile, it's 20:50 and I think I could benefit from some moving pixels as a change from a dead tree smeared with information.

  

Footnote

1  Yesterday was one of them.