Month: June 2006
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Quote of the day: "The failure rate of hard drives is 100%…"
Quote of the day: “The failure rate of hard drives is 100% so it’s not if your hard drive will fail, but when.” from www.logmein.com encouraging people to use their backup service. If that fact doesn’t scare you into making regular backups I don’t know what will. Of course, ‘when’ your hard drive fails could…
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The Last Kingdom (Bernard Cornwell) and The Pale Horseman (Bernard Cornwell)
Two books this time. I bought them as a pair for 3.73 in a supermarket just before we went on holiday. Other than the price and the fear of having nothing to read whilst away, I chose these because I recognised the authors name. He wrote the Sharpe series of novels which have been turned…
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Prelude to Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
A book has a beginning and and end. A story is infinite. When a book begins certain things are accepted as happening before the part you read and as you close the last page of a book you know that as time is ever lasting the story could continue had the author so wished. So…