July the Third

[swashbuckler332]

• EXCELSIOR!
  
  I locked myself out of my own apartment yesterday. Not the new one, but the old: I dropped off my keys and bid farewell once and for all to a place that had been my home and safe haven for nine years. It is done; the future has taken root in the present. "Home" for me has a new definition.


• SMOKELESS ACESToday marks the eighth

Comments

[celtmanx]

"Now I have to alphabetize it." You alphabetize your media collections. My wife thinks I'm crazy for doing that.

[glenniebun]

How would you find anything otherwise?

[ehowton]

I catalog my physical collections by genre. I actually find that in doing so the opposite occurs, I don't "lose" anything I may have forgotten about which would be complementary to what I was looking for.

[swashbuckler332]

My CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays and HD-DVDs were already properly ordered, I only just got the shelf to put the vinyl and laserdiscs into. Those are what still need to be alphabetized.

My music collection is divided by genre, although all the film music is together. Alphabetizing is absolutely necessary; it may not be if you have fifty or seventy CDs, there's only so much to have to search through. I have thousands upon thousands of CDs; if I didn't have the music in some kind of order, I'd never find anything.

[ehowton]

EXCELSIOR!
I can almost hear the sigh of relief.

SMOKELESS ACES
Congratulations. I'll be a year (again) in September. Maybe it'll stick this time?

APARTAMENTI
A labor of love sound like to me.

THE DAMNED APPLE LOGO
I saw mine on the Touch for the first time since I bought it - I've not had reason to ever power it off. Hopefully a restore/re-sync will make her right as rain.

[swashbuckler332]

Restoration and resync completed. It hasn't given me any trouble yet, but I've been using it sparingly.

It occurs to me that like any other hard drive, the iPod can get fragmented, which is probably what's causing these dropouts. Restoring it is supposed to take care of that problem.

[ehowton]

Fragmentation was more a problem with FAT filesystems, which is what I assume its formatted as if you're syncing with a Windows computer. It would be interesting to see if that were less of a problem were it formatted HFS when synced with a mac.

Interesting.

[swashbuckler332]

Well, I can tell you right now that it didn't solve the problem. The iPod keeps resetting itself.