I had to have my dog, Gryphon, put down tonight. I've mentioned him before in this blog - forgive me if I don't feel like grabbing the URL for you, I'm sure if you are interested you can find it yourself. Gryphon was a 12 1/2 year old German Shepherd… more »

For the last few weeks my main system has had to be rebooted on a daily, and sometimes twice daily basis. Having other things on my mind I didn't bother getting too fussed, thinking perhaps I had some dodgy RAM or a disk on the way out - both things I… more »

Title: RESPLENDENT Publisher: Gollancz Author: Stephen Baxter Edition released: 2006 ISBN: 978-0-5750-7983-0 544 pages Reviewed by: Adam Donnison RESPLENDENT is book four of the DESTINY'S CHILDREN series and is a collection of short stories around the… more »

In a previous post I talked about the theoretical possibility of using cheap USB drives as mirrored RAID backup. Testing with flash drives looked good, so when my USB backup drive died I figured it was time to give it a try. I bought a couple of cheap… more »

My dog, Gryphon, is dying. I guess we all are, but he is a lot closer than I am. It is a hard thing to watch though, and difficult to know when to intervene. Currently he is happy in himself, still wants to play, is eating like a horse, but his back end… more »