2014 — 9 February: Sunday
Dr Beeching is being blamed, this morning, for the fact that Devon and Cornwall are now cut off1 from the rest of the Untied Kingdom. And if the boy Dave's ludicrous "phone a friend north of the border" campaign fails, it will be Scotland next :-)
I've just learned...
... that Gloria Jones was Marc Bolan's wife. If the comment here is true. I prefer the original version. And if, as the Huffington Post suggests, "'Tainted Love' Played By Floppy Disk Drives Is Possibly The Best Use Of Technology Ever" then all I can say is:
Nurse! More pills, please.
The thing to remember...
... about Windows Media Player is the glorious way it screws up its associations between album artwork that it finds...
... and albums that I own and have ripped to MP3 and carefully meta-tagged. I like to call it the randomising factor.
I'm now adding...
... the East Caribbean to the (already very long) list of places I have not the remotest wish to visit. Who needs Chikungunya fever, no matter how well-engineered its Aedes aegypti delivery system? (Link.)
Yet another...
... nutritiously-tasty (I hope) crockpot has just been launched on its journey of thermal agitation. Fingers crossed.
The thing to remember...
... about Windows 8.1Pro is the glorious way it's apparently screwed up any chance of easily synchronising subfolder contents between 'onboard' hard drives and NAS drives. Judging by what I could find when asking Mrs Google I am by no means alone with this unhappy thought. No, I have no intention of syncing to and from either or both DropBox and a SkyDrive. I want to keep my data locally, and under local control, dagnabbit. And I'm not hanging around while many gigabytes of data trudge up and down my fibre link to the outside world, thank you very much.
Did I mention I wouldn't trust "the cloud" as far as I could [insert expulsion of bodily fluid of your choice and appropriate verb here]?
I would more happily investigate "File History"2 if its starting assumption wasn't...
... that I could only ever possibly wish to save copies of my files from libraries (which I don't use), from the desktop (which is a pretty dim place to keep hundreds of GB of files, from contacts (which assumes a level of social networking on my part that simply doesn't occur) and from favourites (which means I know not quite what)...