Let’s not go into how long ago I ordered that last box of checks, shall we?

So, that stress ball. Back in the mists of time, HBO aired a series called “From The Earth To The Moon,” a miniseries about the Apollo program. When they were getting ready to promote it they sent out stress balls done up to look like a small Earth and a small Moon. One recipient of… Continue reading We Are All Made Of Snark

The real kicker is that burning a few gigabytes at a time to shiny plastic platters is so darned time-consuming, and then getting the data back off of the platters again later is also so darned time-consuming, that the best solution lately seem to be simply keeping multiple copies on hard drives and hoping not… Continue reading Shiny Plastic Platters