My car was in for it’s MOT today, the required yearly checkup for all cars once they reach the age of three. It passed with flying colours, requiring not a single thing done, leaving me with one very cheap bill and one lovely smile on my face.
When I went through all this with my last car, I crashed and wrote the thing off within a couple of months. So if for some reason the blog posts stop around December 5th, then you know what happened.
The new home for the fish is now setup in the corner and purring away nicely. They look happier already, so hopefully the little inflammation they have around their gills will clear up now that oxygen is in more ready supply.
We had a small works night out tonight, a visit to the local tapas bar. I’m not sure I can speak for everyone, but I feel that a good time was had by all. I certainly enjoyed the social situation we all found ourselves in, and with it being a restaurant I’ve been too so many times before it was very relaxing being in a known environment.
I’m not usually one for the work nights out, I always avoid the Christmas ones. Not only do I find it a little strange celebrating it almost a fortnight before the actual event (complete with supposedely traditional dinner), but getting drunk and dancing like a fool in some hotel just ain’t my idea of fun.
A good meal and a decent restaurant with a bit of banter along the way, that’s far more my style.
One other thing I did this weekend was copying all the content from a couple of the old WOPR hard disks to the new ones. I have 290 movies and over 100 television shows, which is more than a little ridiculous. If I continue to rip my DVD’s then I can push that up to easily over 400, which may be even more so.
Hard disk space is becoming increasingly cheap, there’s no doubt about it. 750GB hard disks may be out there however, but it’s 300GB that is currently the price sweet spot. This means that I’m going to have to do quite a bit of swapping out of one drive for another as sizes go up and prices come down, as there’s no other way I’m going to be able to add more space. I’ve looked at all kinds of solutions to this problem, but they’re either far too slow or far too expensive. I’m sure there’s a great market out there for home storage solutions, but no company yet seems willing to step up to the plate and offer it. Surely with wireless networking getting faster all the time, especially with things like the new N standard, some type of swappable disk array you can hide away in a cupboard can’t be too much of a pie in the sky idea.
This may seem like a stupid question, but you know I like to throw them into the mix every now and again.
When did people decide to put lights inside fridges? Obviously there was a time when people would go through at night, open up their fridges for a midnight snack, only to find themselves unable to see what was inside. So something had to be done.
I assume next came lights that required switching on after you opened the door, a little switch on the right hand side perhaps, just below the lamp itself. But that required too much effort. So something had to be done.
We therefore invented the light switch on a spring, off when it’s pushed in, on when it’s out. We’re an incredibly lazy species. We’re the only creature on the planet that would decide that given all the problems we’re faced with on a daily basis, the one we’d decide to tackle first is the one that stops us from eating after the sun sets.
Although, when you think about it, maybe plenty of other animals would like to do the same.
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