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The world has gone mad

7 September 2026

This morning I reluctantly got out my credit card and paid stupid-high money for a portable hard disk drive.

As someone who creates copious amounts of data in the form of high-bitrate 4K video files, I regularly need to back up those files onto external media for archiving purposes and those (once) cheap USB-connected external hard drives are the media of choice for such things.

I have a drawer filled with over 20TB of such files, spread across nearly a dozen of these devices.

In fact, these drives are a wonderful way of also documenting hard drive size, performance and cost.

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Forums are Down

Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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