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Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song

How To: Prepare for Hard Disk Crash

ExtremeTech has an ok article on how to prepare for the death of a hard drive.  Here are the highlights:

  • Use "misson-critical" parts if machine is "misson-critical" (ie: RAID 1-mirroring)
  • Lower the AutoSave time increments.
  • If there's no AutoSave available, save your work often.
  • Perform nightly backups.
  • Check the integrity of the backups often (I once had to restore from a backup, only to find the backup corrupt).
  • Use a backup battery system.

My work machine adhears to most of the suggestions.  Time to find a better backup routine.  Thank god for source control.

There's also an article about what to do after a hard disk crash.

Maker's Mark...Yummy

Maker's Mark Fermentation

Kentucky Derby Top 20

  1. Big Brown
  2. Pyro
  3. Colonel John
  4. Gayego
  5. War Pass
  6. Yankee Bravo
  7. Tale Of Ekati
  8. Court Vision
  9. Z Fortune
  10. Smooth Air
  11. Visionaire
  12. Cowboy Cal
  13. Tomcito
  14. Bob Black Jack
  15. Hey Byrn
  16. El Gato Malo
  17. Z Humor
  18. Monba
  19. Denis of Cork
  20. Adriano

Rage Against the Machine - Freedom

Top Derby Picks - Under a Month to Go

Here's my current top 10.

  • Pyro
  • Proud Spell
  • Big Brown
  • Into Mischief
  • Georgie Boy
  • War Pass
  • Kodiak Kowboy
  • Tale Of Ekati
  • Colonel John
  • Court Vision
  • Smooth Air
  • Yankee Bravo

Top Kentucky Derby Picks

It's about 32 days until the 2008 Run for the Roses.  Here are this weeks top picks.

  1. Pyro
  2. Kodiak Kowboy
  3. Big Brown
  4. Georgie Boy
  5. Into Mischief
  6. Yankee Bravo
  7. Country Star
  8. Smooth Air
  9. Court Vision
  10. War Pass
  11. Denis Of Cork
  12. Visionaire

Curlin wins the 2008 Dubai World Cup

Stone Temple Pilots - Plush

STP has been another long time favorite of mine.  Here's Plush, off the album Cure.