Yes, I know Tailes is not a word, but it was a humorous attempt to combine two relevant homonyms, tails and tales as this is the saga of my dog Gryphon and the problems with his tail end. Last night was a bit of a trial, not a lot of sleep for me as… more »

It is now several days after I started to prepare myself for the worst and I am now cautiously optimistic. Gryphon (my 11 year old German Shepherd Dog) has now been on cortisone treatment since Sunday and he appears to be beginning to respond… more »

My dog has a degenerative nerve disease, at least that is the 95% likelihood at the moment. He has trouble standing up, moving - especially turning corners, even basic ablutions. In the last two days I've had to put a sling under his belly and hold him… more »

If you read my previous blog entry you will probably have found I got a few things wrong. One was pretty basic and I have to wonder what I was thinking when I wrote it, the other was a little more convoluted and I'm having to rethink some of the… more »

With the inbuilt software mirroring within Linux and the inherent hot-plugability of USB drives, I decided it was time to look at a high-capacity backup system using a combination of the two. Mirroring is hardly new, and the method I describe is based… more »