I’ve been using the Delicious bookmarks service for many years, mostly as a means of sharing cool links with people. A while back I realised that there probably weren’t many people following me there and thought the things I shared where interesting enough that I put a widget in on my blog home page to… Continue reading Sharing links
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The Beaver bites (recovering from a failing hard disk)
Last week I had a hell of a time when the Kingston SSD in my laptop started failing, badly. Poky is well known as a destroyer of disks but it seems cheap SSD’s are even more susceptible to it’s toothy maw. At first it was just (extremely noticeable) performance degradation, but minutes after telling my… Continue reading The Beaver bites (recovering from a failing hard disk)
All the toys!
I’ve acquired a bunch of new gadgets of late, I’m very excited about them all so I decided to promote them here. Reading A Sony PRS 600 E-Book reader was gifted to me this Christmas, and what a fantastic piece of kit it is. I’ve been enjoying several public domain texts from Feedbooks as well… Continue reading All the toys!