September 2008 Archives
Tenor Vacancy
Appearing in today’s Church Times newspaper are details of a current vacancy for a Tenor Lay Vicar Choral at Christ Church Dublin, to commence as soon as possible.
If you’re interested in joining the choir, do get in contact with the Director of Music, Judy Martin.
September 12, 2008
Simple Pleasures
Somebody showed me this morning how to turn the display of my computer upside down, and it’s been entertaining me ever since. I’m not sure if this works on all computers, but you could give it a go. Press Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow to turn the screen upside down, and Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow to restore it. Have fun.
Eighth Birthday
Technically speaking, today is the 8th anniversary of me starting to blog, but all of those early posts have long since been lost in the digital ether.
Of course, these days the date of the 11th September is infamous. But the terror attacks on the US wouldn’t be happening for another year when I started writing on the net. Indeed, when I launched, the only thing on the minds of the British people was the lack of petrol, as we were in the middle of the blockade of the field depots; an action that managed to empty the country’s roads in just a matter of days.
MacBook Hard Disk Replacement
Last night I performed a hard disk upgrade on my Apple MacBook. The original 60GB disk that came with the machine has always been woefully inadequate from the start - particularly as I have about 64GB of music files alone. And so, up until now, I’ve always had to store my media files on an external drive.
The upgrade was inspired by various tutorials available on the net, and is made especially painless by the OS X Leopard backup tool Time Machine, which enables an easy restoration of files onto the next disk.
You can use any 2.5inch SATA disk drive as a replacement. I bought myself a 250GB drive from a local computing shop for just under €100, but you can probably get larger and cheaper drives online.
The physical swap over of the drive only takes about 5 minutes. Just follow the instructions in the online tutorals. But you might need several hours to restore the data onto the new disk afterwards. In my case, I had to partition the disk (using the Disk Utility on the Leopard install DVD), and install OS X onto the disk (taking about an hour), before restoring all my applications and files from the Time Machine backup - which took another couple of hours.
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