Twenty Years

I finally hooked up my new scanner and simultaneously found some very old photos I want to digitze and add to my master digital library for family safekeeping. I found this and according to my very snazzy 1980's Rubik Cube calendar, it was taken around April 1984 (I would have been 15 years old) and shows me sitting by my BBC computer in my parents' converted attic in Glasgow, waiting patiently for an Acornsoft program to load from my tape deck.

If my credentials for being gainfully employed in the technology industry were ever in doubt, you're looking at them.

32,387

Out of 120,658 files in total on my PC box, 32,387 are duplicate files with some digital photos appearing in no less than nine separate locations. That's the problem when you have a comprehensive but disorganised attittude towards backup. And when you have 4 hard disks on your main PC / WIFI network server. Time to find some smart digital photo organising s/w and to free up some space.

I think I need a personal backup strategy.

Over Deconstruction

I think, I mean I'm not sure, but I think I may be through with this giving up lark.

It is too early to tell, but last night I caught myself playing with my template design, and immediately I became concious of what I was doing, I dived for the book-case and ran my office boy unmanly digits down the rack until I found what I was looking for.

"So You Want To Give Up Blogging? - A Practical Guide" by Franklin De Courcey. Like a mad man I frantically pulled at the leaves until I found the chapter entitled "Faux Detachment Syndrome - Symptoms" and there, right smack bang in the middle of page 842, was a short table of symptoms including, not least, "Messing about with your old blog's template - This is a sure fire sign that you are suffering from FDS and before you know it, you'll be back in the land of the blog."