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…or, how I added storage to my iMac and successfully put off getting another computer for at least another year?

Malkovich¹is running low on storage.  Today’s free space count is something like 26.09 GB.  Still reasonably respectable but considering total drive capacity started at 250 GB, we’re certainly feeling cramped.  Personally, I blame all the photos we keep dumping into Aperture.  Let the data speak for itself:

At this rate we’re likely to run out of space by say…  Xmas?  Or thereabouts.

Now, advise me (gentle readers) what do you think is the best way to expand storage without going all out and replacing the machine all together?  Current proposals:

1. Pick up a NewerTech Voyager Q “docking station”² and start loading up on internal SATA drives.
2. Replace Malkovich’s internal 250 GB hard drive with a 1 TB drive and then restore from the most recent Time Machine back-up.
3. Daisy chain another Firewire external hard drive or three off the current Time Machine drive.

Of course…  I’m open to suggestions.  What say you?

UPDATE: See also:  the thread on Facebook.

1. Loyal readers will remember Malkovich from this post speculating on the poor iMac’s eventual demise. [↩]
2. I prefer the Voyager Q to the Thermaltake BlacX mainly on the basis of Firewire support. [↩]

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In August, I submitted 10 photos to “The Relentless Eye”, an all cameraphone photo exhibit at the Helen Day Art Center¹ in Stowe, Vermont.  Earlier this week I started looking to see if any of my photos made it into the show.  And I’m pleased to say that one did:

And here it is with the other 133 juried photos.

The exhibition opens Friday September 25th (6pm to 9pm) and is at 5 School Street in Stowe:

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Original photo on Flickr.

1. Also: on Facebook. [↩]

Dear Phishers:

Really? “fraud_application”? I mean, you think you’re going to fool anyone with that?

A few thoughts as I step away from Theodore Rex:

(1) “Teddy” was a really and truly fascinating character and (like him or not) an important figure in American history.

(2) Given when I was reading this (i.e., more/less at the height of the health care reform debates of the Obama administration), it gives me some perspective and perhaps a little hope, viz. that a popular but politically controversial President can get quite a bit accomplished.

(3) Morris paints a pretty vivid picture of the turn-of-the-century United States in addition to painting a vivid picture of Roosevelt. One of the things that got me through the book’s 555 pages (viz., I don’t care about who is winning delegates!) was the sense of pageantry and drama. Big things were happening and the world was a well-appointed stage.

A version of this review appears on Goodreads.com.

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This showed up on Facebook re: Flickr hiring:

You might’ve seen it there, too.

Being the nosy SOB that I am, I clicked on the image.  First I was wondering:  is that really the Flickr dev pod?  And sure enough, it is.  Or was?  I noticed on the user’s profile that he used to work for Flickr.

Now, the photo is licensed as Attribution-Sharealike; which is great.  And I don’t believe that this is in any way a violation of the license.  It’s just…  Call me crazy but it seemed like a little bit of an odd choice, using a former employee’s photo.  But maybe only slightly?

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