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“Do you remember the old days when your NES wasn’t working and you had to blow into the cartridge like it was a harmonica?  Well now you can blow into a real harmonica built into a classic NES cartridge!”

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This is just amazing.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/481

I’ve never really watched any TED Talks but…wow!
Fair enough, walking around with such a device would make you look like a complete looser… But I already am. YAY!

So I figure, now the initial “buzz” of twitter has calmed down a bit, I’d see what all this new shite was about.
I understand the “microblogging” idea. Basically, when your attention span drops to sub atomic levels as this day and age has come to cherish, and no-one can be bothered to write out an actual informative post on their blog. (or in my case complete drivel!)

I signed up yesterday having no idea wtf I was doing. When you begin, it does the friendly “enter your email address and passwords so I can steal all your contacts and spam the hell out of them” but at least gives a relatively obvious button to skip that step. Unfortunately, its probably not obvious enough for all the braindead web-kiddies destroying the net with their facebooks and myspaces.
The next step suggests people you might be interested in “following”. Which I don’t quite understand because I have no interest in following “Sockamillion – Jason Scott’s Cat”. Or for that matter, “10 Downing Street” (Yes #10 has a twitter profile…WTF?!)
It seems more like these profiles are most popular rather than picking people who you ACTUALLY might be interested in.

However, again, its a skippable step and you can get into searching for the people/organisations/etc you want. I found one or two people I know and also the twitter profiles of some celebs like Mr Stephen Fry, Kevin Smith and… Neil Gaiman!!

Its quite interesting following celebs as you get to see a more personal front of them rather than a media bastardisation of their persona.
Johnathan Woss tending to his sick wife, Neil looking after his son with a broken leg.

I’ve also added a “friend” called ‘playtwivia’ which a member of Neowin.net coded which pops up a trivia question every 3-4 hours and you earn points for answering correctly. Its quite smart, but the internet being what it is, every answer is googleable.

(I realised I have coined many new words on this blog post. Or at least words which aren’t technically true words. But hey, its my Blog!)

Twitter can also be used as a News Aggregator;  a sort of RSS feed mixed into it. So I get the lastest news posts from Neowin.net and also the latest lolcats from icanhascheezburger.com

All in all, its maybe something I’ll keep up with alongside this blog.  Sure i’m not going to ‘tweet’ things like, “I’m in work, its boring” or, “woke up, had breakfast, i’m tired” –At least not constantly. No-one is interested in that crap. I can develop it into something somewhat interesting such as my tweet:

Just made Haggis Neeps and Tatties for first time myself – all i can say is: http://tinyurl.com/arotcm

The tinyurl points to an excellent video on youtube. I suggest you play it with volume UP!

So, if you want to be depressed by my inane ramblings more, follow me on http://twitter.com/grantdickins

Yes boys and girls, im a Gigabyte Junkie. Or this time, i should say Terrabyte junkie!
OH yes! Went and got me one of them 1TB Drives earlier this week, delivered yesterday and took all night to format.

Of course, those who understand the tech world of bits bytes and megabytes, will understand that hard drives need overhead for the file table and such. Also that manufacturers use base 10 where kilo is 10³ and giga is 10⁹ etc. Whereas most OS’s use base 2 (2ⁿ) to do their byte to kilobyte etc.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibi#IEC_standard_prefixes

So basically, my 1TB drive is actually only ~931GB

And I don’t know what to use it for! LOL
Well, I do. My 1st 500GB drive is now full with TV shows and Movies. I actually split them up so its mostly jsut TV shows on the 500GB and stuck movies on the 250GB drive (Previously used for backups and junk)

Unfortunately, the 250GB is not big enough for the Movies alone, so thats now overflowing onto the free space of the 500GB drive which i don’t like because I’m anal retentive and like to keep things organised and together.

So here we have:
Vista (C:) and Program Files (E:) are my other 500GB drive. 2 partitions
Audio (D:) is a 200GB IDE drive – Just for music.
Data (H:) Stores my ‘My Documents’, Game installs, backups of some things, CD Images, etc etc etc…
TV, Movies (G:) is the 500GB for TV shows and Movie overflow (For the moment)
Movies (I:) is just Movies, catagorised by Genre and some even by director.
And then New Volume (J:) is the new 1TB drive ready to fill up with crap. Huzzah!

I read a joke earleir today which actually made me giggle despite the Math Geekyness of it. Thought I’d share it with nobody who reads this site…

I liked it!