Archive for January, 2007

Survivors of the digital apocalypse


Well it’s been over a day now since I began the music saving project after the external USB drive failed. I’ve salvaged more than 150Gb out of 238Gb so far. Every file saved is a relief. It could have been so much worse.

I ended up having to select no more than ten to fifteen folders at a time, and move them rather than copy. Any more folders, the chances are the old drive gives up and needs to be turned off for a while before trying again. Copying seems to take up far too much CPU power and takes way too long a time. I think the computer must have to check each file and mirror it in memory when copying, whereas just moving files involves less computational effort.

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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Doctor Who short story submitted


My Doctor Who short story was submitted by email to the anthology competition yesterday at the eleventh hour. I nearly forgot to send it in! I’m now getting back to my novel-writing this week.

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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007