Comments for The Spiral Quirk

Comment on Flowers, Flies and Eight-legged Friends by Gill

Gill — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:04:59 +0000

How lovely to hear from you!

I still pop in to dA from time to time to see what’s dropped into my watch list, so I’ll go take a look asap.

I hope you’re keeping well?

Comment on Flowers, Flies and Eight-legged Friends by Keflan

Keflan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:27:48 +0000

Very impressive Gill. I am admiringly jealous:)

(put some new stuff up on keflan.deviantart.com if you can stomach a visit )

Keflan/Rik

Comment on Weeping, Wailing & Gnashing of Teeth … and a smile by ID

ID — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:55:01 +0000

RAID plus backup? Yep, that’s overkill! I should have configured mine up for RAID after the HD loss, but I ended up with just the daily backup, configured to run at evening mealtime because for some reason, it virtually disables web browsing.

Comment on Weeping, Wailing & Gnashing of Teeth … and a smile by Gill

Gill — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:49:54 +0000

I rescued a few bits’n'bobs, but it took endless hours trying a dozen programs to convince me that my UF params were gone for good I now have a nice, shiny copy of Acronis True Image and an incremental backup scheduled for once a day. Also planning on setting up a second RAID HD. Paranoid, or what?

Comment on Weeping, Wailing & Gnashing of Teeth … and a smile by ID

ID — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:52:47 +0000

That all sounds very familiar, a computing annus horribilis. Mine was 2007: motherboard failure; a tripartite saga with BT (1. intermittent line failure required much work in a box up a pole 2. the week after this was sorted, a neighbour’s crane-hobbyist brother brought the lines down with his award-winning vehicle 3. after repairing this, we discovered that BT had crossed three of the lines); and, like yourself, hard-drive failure – I’ve tried every free piece of software available and only ever managed to retrieve a small group of pointless thumbnails from the internet cache!

Comment on Some people are way too touchy by Ken

Ken — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:34:50 +0000

These are all quite amazing images and videos. If you visit the Yosemite link above, and then go to the xRez link, there are some more impressive images of Yosemite. On several of them, you can see the people standing at the top of Half Dome. The one called Quarter Dome Viewpoint shows the trail up to the top of Half Dome. It looks like there are 100s of people making the trek up.

Comment on Some people are way too touchy by Gill

Gill — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:47:25 +0000

Never being able to resist an (armchair) challenge … I found this for you, Ian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72rN5zO2T7A&feature=related

Watch it with your eyes closed

Comment on Some people are way too touchy by ID

ID — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:09:07 +0000

Amazing pictures! I’m drawn to scaring myself with great heights, and these do the job well. This is an old favourite:

http://www.ssqq.com/archive/vinlin27d.htm

Funnily enough, I have middle-clicked links to open in the background, so I didn’t even see the splash screens

Comment on Mexico! by LaPurr

LaPurr — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:02:17 +0000

The photos are wonderful! :O

Great hotel/resort.
Wonderful flora and fauna.
Love the dragonflies. Purple!
Noble iguanas.
Unreal-looking turtle.
Incredible ruins.

I liked looking at your holiday shots; they make me want to go to Mexico.

‘Course, there’s that heat/humidity thing…:(

Comment on Mexico! by ID

ID — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:58:44 +0000

It all looks rather splendid. And you take a fine photograph. I’ll bet you’re palnning next year’s trip already