I had a Western Digital 1TB Green Power fail on me last week. No major disappointment, just a lot of stuff MythTV had recorded for me that I had either watched and was keeping on the off-chance I'd watch it again, or it was CSI Miami and I hadn't suffered from enough insomnia to need to watch it.

Anyway, the model I had is obsolete after a few months (big surprise there), and ebuyer don't have any in stock, so I have the purchase price of the old drive to spend on a new one, I choose a Samsung EcoGreen F2 1.5TB.

I wake up eary Sunday morning to find a laptop outside my bedroom door. This is generally indicative of sermon-stopping technical issues. I go searching for explanatory notes and the all important power brick and find them next to the kettle where I usually find instructions for locating whichever meals I've managed to sleep through.

The problem: mother cannot get pictures into PowerPoint.

I had to share this: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages . Awesome, somehow related to history yet wrong in the most amusing of ways.

I've not been posting here in a while, mostly through being occupied with another hobby that gets a similar descriptions. I'll post photos when I've dealt with the latest in a series of annoying tech issues.

I found a fantastic little article that attempts to explain Technomancy.

A shame it misses out on crucial techniques like having a set of MS-Dos floppies to hand as an example of what might happen should the hardware misbehave.

The article is published under a Creative Commons(CC-BY-SA) licence, so the article probably wrote itself given the authors description of Open Sourcery.