Welcome all to Monday the 3rd of August 2009, my Name is Daniel and I will be your host for this evening, and the foreseeable future whilst your viewing my blog. As regular readers will know, I’ve just started two and a half weeks much needed holiday. I’ve decided to give you all just a good old regular blog, no research (because I haven’t picked up the Atlantis Atlas for two days now) and no Pimping because my internet is to slow to load Flickr (Damn you 25Gig Cap)
For my first day of Holidays I thought it would be a bit un-eventfull. Sitting around the house surfing on the web just being a house bum… although in a matter of minutes it quickly turned into me and iKoz racing to Courtney’s work to catch up for Lunch, something that we commonly do on a Tuesday (my regular, Rostered Day Off) After some much needed food and random chatting, me and Kyle ended up at Office works after dropping off Courtney back at work.
The visit to Officeworks was of course a geeky one as we both looked over the 1TB External hard drives and we both proceeded to purchasing. Western Digital My Book Home Edition 1TB drives, 30% more energy efficient from standard systems… YAY, although I have found that I really do like this External drive. It was easy to use and set up, even if it did result in me and Kyle having to spend an extra $25 at the Apple store to buy a Firewire 800 / 400 connector cable (Our Macbook’s decide to have 800 size hole compared to the Hardrives 400 size cable. (is it just me or does that sound dirty?))
The flashing lights on the front are fun J because you know flashing things amuse me, The lights flash up and down when there are file access / transfers in progress and sit solid when in standby, the drive does make a small amount of spinning sound but that’s only when under intense use. There are 2 Firewire 400 ports on the back, except you can only use one at a time… and there is also a Micro USB as well as eSata I have yet to use the USB or eSata (I have the connection just no cable) and why use USB when its slower than Firewire which I have on both my Mac and PC (Which is working again under Windows XP, its basically a file server atm and Media center, it Connects to my surround sound and TV, my Mac does that as well but I can leave the PC plugged in and take the Mac around J )
At the moment I’m backing up my DVD collection to my PC which has 1 TB of space and also to the
External HD, I’ve spent a fair bit of money on my DVD’s and I figured it would be best for me to keep copies of them in case the original disc’s get scratched.
Oh yeah that reminds me, Stargate Atlantis Season 5 came in the mail today, as well as Merlin season 1, But SGA S5 came with a FREE USB MUG WARMER… because I drink soo much coffee that I needed it…. I am drinking a coffee at the moment, to see how it runs. The Blue lights are bright, and the pad does get quite warm but it only seems to be keeping the drink Luke warm now after the mug has been sitting half empty for a few minutes.
As you can guess, I am watching Season 5 right now, and shamefully sitting in my Stargate Atlantis Jacket, which got washed the other day… it hadn’t been washed since I got it, but I don’t wear it a whole lot. But because I couldn’t put the Velcro patches in the wash… guess where they ended up…
I think that’s all I have to say today, I should be back tomorrow or Wednesday hopefully with some new Pics for you all! Or a Product review, who knows!
Happy Camping!