Month: June 2006

  • Quote of the day: "The failure rate of hard drives is 100%…"

    Quote of the day: “The failure rate of hard drives is 100% so it’s not if your hard drive will fail, but when.” from www.logmein.com encouraging people to use their backup service. If that fact doesn’t scare you into making regular backups I don’t know what will. Of course, ‘when’ your hard drive fails could…

  • The Last Kingdom (Bernard Cornwell) and The Pale Horseman (Bernard Cornwell)

    Two books this time. I bought them as a pair for 3.73 in a supermarket just before we went on holiday. Other than the price and the fear of having nothing to read whilst away, I chose these because I recognised the authors name. He wrote the Sharpe series of novels which have been turned…

  • Prelude to Foundation (Isaac Asimov)

    A book has a beginning and and end. A story is infinite. When a book begins certain things are accepted as happening before the part you read and as you close the last page of a book you know that as time is ever lasting the story could continue had the author so wished. So…