The Evils of Solid State Disks

You’d think that a solid state disk would be more reliable than one which contains tiny moving parts that whizz around in close proximity to each other, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. And with solid state disks you don’t get any warning.

With hard disks I’m quite good at detecting when something is amiss. Files that take a long time to arrive, clicking noises from the box, all give warning of bad stuff to come. But with an SSD they can just fail. And not just one track or sector, but the whole thing at once. At least my SSD went a bit wobbly before it finally expired. It worked fine when cold, and failed when it had warmed up. The good news is that ebuyer sent me direct replacement of the broken disk. The bad news is that the replacement is way too identical to the original. It doesn’t work either. And the ebuyer system seems to come unstuck if you try to return a return.

Ho hum.

Therapeutic Pottering

I’m definitely getting better. It’s rather strange. I’m perfectly happy to dash around the place, running errands and fetching things, but I have real problems sitting down and doing stuff, especially at a computer. I mentioned that I didn’t feel “normal” last week to the doctor, and he made the perfectly reasonable response “Just what is normal anyway?”. Fair point.

Anyhoo, at the moment I’m just pottering around the house doing bits and bobs and taking every excuse to go out for a walk.

Mystery Picture

I took this picture with the Lumia 920 yesterday. With results like these I don’t think I have to carry my camera around everywhere now. But the mysterious thing about this picture is the way that the flags are blowing in completely different directions.

Strange eh?

Complicated Games

We played another complicated game today. Great fun, although at one point my brain did begin to run out of my ears.

Anyone of you clever folks out there able to tell me what the game is?

My First Cake (mostly)

Number one daughter is very keen on cooking, and some of this is rubbing off on me. This afternoon we made a cake (see above). I’m not saying I did all the making, but I did melt the chocolate and help with the stirring. Great fun, and turned out rather well if I do say so myself.