Monsterbyte!

If you feel inadequate about your hard drive size, a well-known Swiss (or German, for the pedants among us) electronics supermarket sells Terrabyte (sic) sized harddrives. Now… Terra (with two “r”s) usually refers to earth. So… is that a harddrive the size of the whole planet? Would be useful for Marvin the paranoid Android: “Here I am, harddrive the size of a planet…”

Of course, I couldn't leave this post without looking up where the prefix “tera” as in 10¹² (or in this case 2⁴⁰) actually comes from. Here's what the second oracle told me:

Confirmed in 1960, it comes from the Greek τερασ, meaning monster.^*

I therefore suggest we call it a Monsterbyte from now on!

Plagues!

What, no “Plaguettes”? Sounds… interesting. Cheerleaders for the Black Death or cholera, maybe? Or simply a French wine…

Anyway, if you're looking for a plague, they're the guys to go to.

Disclaimer: I have no idea about any products of any company mentioned in this post, not even the misspelled ones. So there. But Ms. Magenta's Cholera looks lovely!

Eh... where does this go

Good thing I was flying out of Dublin Airport on August 3^rd… taking the bus would have been slightly confusing. However, I find it hard to believe that the letters “FCKNG” should appear anywhere randomly, especially preceded by a smilie ;). Who knows… some bored sign technician, maybe?

Continuing from my last post: If you see this one, you're on the right server.

Now back to our regular programme…

I have shuffled a few things around on my various servers. This page has moved up one machine (in the shelf, that is) to http://blog.adebaumann.com instead of http://biel.adebaumann.com/wordpress. If you're thinking “What's changed then?”… the whole site lives under that name now, not just the front page. Might I suggest you check out your atom-feeds as well? If this is the last post you see, you're on the old server and should change accordingly.

Juice

I am constantly amazed at what wonders the Irish can do when they set their minds to it. Especially if they assault me with what must be higher dimensional mathematics at the breakfast table. Now… if they could pull the same trick off with Guinness? Please? Alternatively, I would recommend they take a short course in applied mathematics.