Hard

There's never a dull moment when it comes to Sniffy and her PC! For the past week or so, I've been noticing strange switch noises coming from within the box that sits on my desk here, like something powering down then up again. Well, it turns out that one of my hard drives is goosed!

Realising that hard disks can just go has scared the crap out of me. This PC contains archives of things that are about 15 years old, not to mention all my photos and music, e-mails and shite. What the hell do you do if you lose all that?

I count myself very lucky since it's my spare drive that is dying. It's one that I use for backing up my stuff, so I'm just going to get one of those external hard drive things as a backup instead.

Think on.


This life
This episode has made me realise how important my PC is to me. What would life be like without one? It doesn't bear thinking about. I'd end up some sort of catatonic wreck, rocking back and forth in a chair. Jesus, I'd have to watch TV or do something dreadful like go out.

Heaven forbid.

It's clicking at me now.

I used to like This Life and I'm pleased that a one-off episode that catches up with the characters ten years on is now being filmed. I remember watching one episode in front of my parents, cousin and her ten year old son: Ferdy and that horrible Scottish bloke were shagging in a toilet or something. Brilliant.


I hate ebay
I never get anything good on ebay. I never win auctions, or see anything that makes me think Oh that's a real bargain, just what I've been after! It is shite and it has been taken over by sellers from the far east peddling their wares at seemingly good prices but with huge postal costs.

Can anybody tell me the last thing they won in an ebay auction (not bought) that has been really good?

I suppose I'm looking for the wrong things. If I wanted to collect thousands of issues of Shoot! magazine from the 1970s, I'd probably be really happy (until I caught a fatal mycelial infection from all the mold that had grown on them).

So here's a challenge for anybody who happens to have a heart: Put something really good up for sale on ebay and let me win the auction for a bargain price of 20p with free P&P.


Oddness
I got an e-mail from somebody yesterday. It said that if I put up a simple link for Endsleigh life insurance that they'd give me £40, or £50 if did it today. So I did. We'll see what happens.

If anybody else fancies advertising their services here, I'm pretty cheap. In all honesty, the best way for people to advertise themselves here is to offer decent service. Be good and I'll tell the world, be bad and I'll let you have it with both barrels.

Good books:
Tesco
Marks and Spencer
Amazon UK
Suburb

Bad books:
Asda
GE Capital
BT
Greggs
Vauxhall
New Labour

There are others, plenty of them, but that'll do for now.