backup bling
Originally uploaded by blind sam.

I got myself some practical geek bling in the form of shiny new hard drive as designed by F.A.Porsche. Hopefully this back up bling will be a little more reliable than my former back up drive (having the unfortunate sobriquet of 'box of death' among its foes). I, on the other hard, still think that the name 'johannes de silentio' is better suited for a drive that sounded like a Ford Fiesta's dodgy transmission.

One of the great things about buying LaCie's drives is that they all come with syncing software. They supposedly come with Retrospect but mine came with something called Silverkeeper which I've not used before. As Silverkeeper is freeware and Retrospect is not, I'm not entirely convinced that the choice was due to the software. On the other hand, I've been using free, share or whatever ware since you had to order it by mail from photocopied catalogues on tapes and single sided 3.5" disks for machines with a fraction of the computational power of my phone, so you would have thought that I'd have figured out by now that the great majority of it is really good software. In fact, aside from a few flagship programs by Adobe and Newtek just about all of my software falls into the other category.

Mental Note to Self: remember that cost is not value, cost is not value. Sometimes I need to decapitalise myself. Maybe I could hire a ninja to assault me occasionally with an easy-wipe copy of Das Kapital.