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October 15, 2006


15th
Oct 06

Passport. RIP.

Posted by David at 2:37pm. Viewed 0 times.

My devoted 40gb WD Passport Drive is no longer with us.

I accidentely dropped it onto concrete from about 5ft on Friday and it’s now rather broken. I use it to ferry personal data between work and home (I get a lot of my web development work done during my lunchtimes at work, for example).

I do back it up, but I’ve not done it for a couple of weeks (I know, I know - I’ll sort that out now) so it’s been a slow job of recreating any changes. There’s still work to do, and some stuff I’ll have lost. Oh well.

And on order from Amazon is a shiny new replacement drive - a black 60gb WD passport. Hmm.

It’s cost me lost work and £60. Sods law I guess.

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15th
Oct 06

Grrrr my head

Posted by David at 2:34pm. Viewed 0 times.

That will teach me to drink.

Tried out a new restaurant last night with some friends. Conclusion - great food, reasonable prices but lousy service. Oh well, you live and learn.

Friday night I was helping unload the sets from the vans (they were picked up from where we store them and brought to the school at which we perform). Saturday, from 9am until, in my case about 4pm, we were building. And painting.

All good fun and most of it is built.

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