I should really be happy for them.
And I am.
But it's tainted by envy.
And the sour taste
of childhood insecurities
inferior
complexity
I am flawed
Why do I bother to check work emails just before going to bed?
Knowing that it will raise my blood pressure and cause yet another sleepless night?
Why do I let work situations, and people, get the better of me?
Why did I blog this anyway?
Impotent rage, I guess.
Two guys.
Four months, three face-to-face meetups. Countless online chats.
One music album.
And now we have a band blog.
Another all time favourite.
It's something we always kick ourselves after the fact. But when time is on our side, we never seem to do it.
At least, I don't.
So far, I've not crashed my computer (touch er, PLASTIC!)
Decided to do at least a half-yearly backup of my files to DVD. A backup of whatever that's on disk at that point in time.
A Digital Data Snapshot.
Half a year may seem like insufficient.
Probably is.
But it's a balance between spending money on storage (I have loads of DVDs, which I find relatively less expensive than buying secondary disks storage or USB drives... but maybe I'll change my mind later).
Anyway, mental note to self: Give myself at least 2 to 3 hours to do the backups.
'Cos it did take that long to archive the file, and burn to DVD.
What I did:
- Selected the files to backup (normally in a folder)
- Deleted redundant files and kept the rest (even if it's Work-in-progress)
- Temporarily moved files I do not want to backup out of the folder
- Created an archive copy of the folder (I'm using a Mac: see "Finder"). Repeat this for files I want to backup
- Created a BURN folder. Moved the archived files to this folder.
- Clicked on "burn" just to check what much storage space is required (I prefer to maximise my DVD since it's a -R, i.e. burn once only)
Hmm.. I've not tried restoring an archived file though...
Ok, just did.
It worked.
Basically it's just a ZIP file.
- Copy from DVD to harddisk
- Double click on the ZIP file
- OSX would automatically unarchive the files
Beautiful.
If any song can make a rocker cry, I suspect this will. Well, cry inwardly, at least. Ah heck, listen to the song.
I must have heard this almost two decades ago. Two decades! It still sounds as solid as when I first heard it. Slash's guitar riffs kicks @ss. It was one of those songs that made me want to learn how to play the electric guitar.
The man is the BEST. In my humble opinion.
Yay! Made progress from the last update, which was two months ago. I finally managed to clear most of the stuff on my desktop. Either blogged about them, or filed them to my del.icio.us account, or trashed them.
One of my favourite Joe Satriani composition. Many years ago, I even bought the tabs and tried to play.
