Mike’s Blog

VMware gave a big yawn, and settled down to sleep. And of course when VMware goes to sleep, all his friends go to sleep too. The users’ connections were just ornaments on the hard disk. Mail and DNS services were just dolls. And apache was a carved wooden bookend in the shape [...]

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This is what a normal hard drive looks like inside. Note the nice shiny mirror like surface on the platter.

 
This is what happens to your drive when an internal part breaks. This is an actual customers drive opened in a clean room by a data recovery company. Not surprisingly the data could not be recovered.

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Life’s strange sometimes isn’t it? Linda Watkins and I often play a few tunes together at the Buckingham Acoustic club and have fun doing it but Linda has her own full time bass player, Godfrey Yeomans so we don’t play together proper likeJ Godfrey is a great bass player (Hang on. Strike that. He’s a [...]

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Just discovered the blogging feature in Word 2007. Makes blogging easy and maybe I’ll be able to update this thing a bit more often J
 

That’s me in the studio!

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Last night I went to an open mic night at The Crown in Stony. (This place is famous for having been in the film Withnail & I.) This is a different type of open mic to the one I’m normally used to at Buckingham and Wolverton where you get a set time to stand up [...]

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