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December 21, 2010

Monsters

Filed under: Movies — William_T_Goodall @ 22:32

Another great little British SF movie after last year’s Moon. Is there a trend of one word titles beginning with ‘M’?

December 20, 2010

SATA/IDE to USB

Filed under: IT,Unboxing — William_T_Goodall @ 22:00

Handy gadget for attaching bare drives by USB without having to mount them in a caddy or case.

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December 16, 2010

Somewhere

Filed under: Movies — William_T_Goodall @ 20:22

Went to see Sofia Coppola’s new film Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning. A meditative piece of similar themes to Lost in Translation but less comical. Not much happens but I liked it.

December 6, 2010

GoFlex

Filed under: IT,Unboxing — William_T_Goodall @ 17:11

My pair of Formac 160GB rotating back-up drives were full so I needed something bigger. I got a pair of GoFlex 1TB drives which came with USB interfaces. I got a single Firewire pluggable interface to share between them. One drive is sitting in the Firewire dock getting backups stored on it while the other is rotated out offsite.

A £5 Firewire 400<->800 cable let me plug it into my iMac.

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December 1, 2010

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest

Filed under: Movies — William_T_Goodall @ 21:26

Probably incomprehensible if you hadn’t read the book. Various scenes from the book unclearly connected in the film. Worst of the three, and not a very good film.

At imdb.

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