Something for a change, finally. I’ve been listening to Bibio, lately. It reminds me a bit of Boards of Canada, which is good. I’ve been trying to find some stickers for my laptop, namely GNOME, WordPress, Laughing Squid, and a few others. It’s kind of hard to find them. :(

Time for a story. Some time at the beginning of 2004, I received a box full of computer parts from a friend, including a case with a fitted motherboard. I built a server that I use to this day out of said parts. The highest capacity drives in there were a Western Digital 40GB and a Hitachi Deskstar 80GB. You read that right. A DeathstarDeskstar. I used it as the master drive (still do) and immediately noticed a clicking followed by a strange beep. I was still able to read/write to it (at normal times, too!) and ignored these strange sounds. Fast forward to now. I hadn’t heard about the woes of the Deskstar until this evening when I came across a YouTube video of a guy describing the “click of death.” In it, he demonstrated what it sounded like, beeps and all. So, sure enough, I’ve been using a bad drive for my backups for 6 years…and I don’t think I’m going to swap it anytime soon (I have no money, okay.). I have all of its data set to back up to that 40GB drive once a week. I’m sure I’ll wake up one morning to find that it’s completely dead, but until then… 0:D