So where did you get your organs?
Woof! Bark! Crash! More rumblings from the roof next door. They seem to be arriving earlier and earlier but getting less work done. Not that I am obsessing about the roof work next door or anything! 🙂
Purchased a rather nifty external hard drive to back up my entire music catalogue and so yesterday I spent time copying files from one drive to another. It’s all rather clever and now it means I have a backup of all my record collection (in MP3 format) that I can connect to any PC with a USB cable. Technology like this still amazes me. When I think back to 1997 and just how difficult it was to store music on PC and then MP3 came along. Wowser. Changed everything.
Then there are these drives that seem to be getting bigger and bigger. I remember when we thought a 10 Mb drive was the end of the earth or when it would take us forever to fill a 3.5″ floppy disc. Now storage is king and you are judged by the size of your hard drive (oooer, missus). My PC now has three hard drives. One for the operating system and main apps, one for all the various bits and bobs I download/work on and a third drive solely for all my music recordings – and this one is a S-ATA drive and is superfast, making it ideal for music recording. When I sit and think about this, I balk. Three drives? Overkill, surely? But it this age of MP3, DivX and digital media in general, you just have to have them…
I try to hide it, but I am still a bit of a gadget whore. Even though I don’t have the money to indulge myself that much, whenever I see something clever I still get excited. The problem is that there is sooo much technology out there it can spin your head. But I must recomend “The Gadget Show” on Channel 5 on Fridays at 19.30. It’s a great show that doesn’t talk down to you and you always come away learning something (even a gadget whore like me).
Nowadays, I am more likely to get excited about a motherboard. You should have seen the look on the face of my Missus when I showed her pictures of my new motherboard. She thought I was mad to get excited about a printed circuit board. There’s nothing quite like being up to your elbows in computer bits and assembling a PC. I can totally empathise with those folks who take their cars apart to fix them. It is a nice feeling.
Blah, blah, blah…gibber, gibber. Now off to buy a newspaper with Alex the Wonderdog in tow.