Big bag of updates
Oct. 1st, 2002 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciphergoth- My ears are feeling a lot better - thanks to everyone who asked!
- Remember we're having a party on Saturday!
- and it's .conception on Sunday.
- My digicam broke when I tried to photograph the giraffes in Amsterdam Zoo; it lost the ability to focus, and later it couldn't retract the lens at all. Yesterday I collected the replacement from the camera shop. I have photography again, yay!
- Also, my MP3 player broke *again*. That means that I've lost all the MP3s I ripped for it, and many of the photos that I and others took in Italy. The Florence lot are OK, but I don't have the fab photo of
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kboyd in a swimsuit that I was so looking forward to. Boo!
- I had a good weekend. Thanks for a fab party, gothtart and vacant_!
- Tonight pavlos is coming around I think. Tomorrow I shall go to the pub. Thursday I'm seeing calar. Friday ergotia and lilithmagna arrive, all being well.
- I've been discussing trust metrics some more; if you're interested in this sort of thing join the
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trustmetrics community, since it's a bit lonely being the only member...
- I have upgraded my main machine (which is both server and the box I sit at) to Debian 3.0. And I now use Galeon as my main browser. It rocks so very very hard.
- Whitby soon! yay! must wash some clothes.
- Jeffery Archer is still in prison.
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Date: 2002-10-01 02:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-02 02:19 am (UTC)And the 2002 edition of "How to win friends and influence people" will have a section about not asking people who've just suffered data loss whether they have backups.
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Date: 2002-10-02 03:12 am (UTC)It was having to learn much more about the internal structure of PageMaker data files than anyone outside Adobe should have to know that convinced me that if I want to keep something, it's on at least two different forms of media, ideally in separate locations.
If that means buying more flash cards for a camera, rather than wiping them once the photos have been transferred, so be it.
The people I really feel sorry for are those who expect their inkjet printouts of their priceless photos to last and who have wiped the files.