Nickster’s View

I’m increasingly paranoid about data integrity and backups, especially in light of my recent SATA Write Delayed Failure issues. The thought of losing my PhD research would enter highly in my top 10 most fscked up things to happen to date. I have DVD backups, I have mirrored backups on different partitions. […]

It amused me to find this in the study guide for the course i’m currently assisting on:

I must be getting old because it was surprising to me to find such lingo in university material. ‘Unlicensed software’, or ‘illegal software’ works too, but I guess the kids can relate to terms like appz and warez. […]

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Originally uploaded by quasimojo.

Taken two nights ago in the garden. Spent about 20 mins mucking about trying to expose correctly for the surface, which I finally managed to get right (at 1/50th…surprised me). Taken with a 70-300mm Canon lens and an EOS 300D.
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