Published by Cliph on Wednesday, May 11th, 2005
in music.
The Clap are playing at the next Ballroom of Romance on Friday May 27th. Further details, including a sample from our next EP, can be found on the all new http://theclap.ie/ and the Ballroom site.
We’re in the process of writing new songs, polishing older-new songs and generally getting our act together.
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They Might Be Giants are playing in London on May 26th, which is the night before the gig, and I’m going to miss them (this time) because of my dedication to (one of my) art(s) and our fans.
Your attendance is mandatory.
Compliance officers will be dispatched to round you up prior to the gig.
You do not want them to find your enthusiasm wanting.
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An update to the tale of woe about my external hard disc from other a month ago. I purchased a 250GB disc during the week and installed it and the problematic drive in my OpenBSD machine at home. I then used dd_rescue (I could also have used dd but dd_rescue is designed to be fault tolerant) to copy the data from the troubled drive to the new one. It was about 50% done when I checked on it this morning so it should be almost fully done when I get home after work. There hasn’t been any read errors so far which confirms my suspicions that the only problem with the drive was that the partition table had become corrupt.
So now I have, or will very shortly have, a 200GB file containing the contents of my old external disc. What are my options for recovering my data from that?
I should probably mention that in the past month+ since my drive failed the prospect of losing all that data has really gotten me down, add to that the knowledge that the recovery was bound to be arduous with no guarantee of success.
In a related incident I accidentally deleted a directory of songs and other material I’d been working on that I stored on my Desktop (stupid!) because I had no where else to store or back them up do.. Some of the songs I was really enthusiastic about. Losing them, including an almost finished remix I’d worked on for several man-days, was a major bummer and fed my ill feeling.
Increasingly, and especially for people like me, data loss is a major issue. Most of everything I do, generates or otherwise produces data. I am the sum of my bits.
Published by Cliph on Thursday, May 5th, 2005
in work.
Folks, how do you keep yourselves motivated while you work, particularly in the afternoon? Recently I’ve found my motivation waning, especially after lunch, when I find it very difficult to focus and engage myself in tasks and my attention drifts.
