Archive for category Miscellaneous
Baccarat Snoopy Golfer
Posted by birdie in Golf, Miscellaneous on November 2, 2009
We’re (actually R) great fans of Snoopy. So we’ve got Snoopy head covers, ball pouches etc. When we learned that Baccarat was to produce a crystal Snoopy golf figurine, we immediately placed an order. But maybe it was the Financial Tsunami or something, it never seemed to materialize. The closest we came was to see a rough photocopy at the local Baccarat store…but still no delivery date. But today we received this DM in the mail today. So it must be close. Will call them tomorrow to see if they have an exact date. Will keep everyone posted.
Snoopy Golfer © Baccarat & United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Murphy’s Law strikes again
Posted by birdie in Miscellaneous on September 29, 2009
Ah, the old Murphy’s Law. R was eyeing the LaCie 2TB 2big Quadra 2-bay RAID drive a week ago at the DG store (local Apple dealer in Hong Kong) and was thinking of replacing the 1TB Synology network drive that was migrated from the Windows days. And low and behold…the network drive crashes and dies! Recovery was futile and all seemed gone. But luckily we made a backup earlier and figured we may have lost a month’s worth of stuff at most. Great excuse to buy that new 2TB drive. This time we are definitely running RAID 1 – redundant mirroring on two drives by saving the same data on both drives simultaneously. Effectively cuts the capacity in half to 1TB but much safer.
Since the blog was updated relatively recently, our posts weren’t affected too much. Only our pending writeups of the memorable Krug Room dinner at the Mandarin Oriental and a 5th Anniversary tasting menu at Harlan’s. We downloaded the photos onto the iMac and they were unfortunately saved on the external drive 
Luckily, although the files were deleted from the camera’s SD card, it seems like we can recover most of the photos – with the help of Stellar Phoenix Mac Photo Recovery software downloaded from the Internet. So stay tuned and give us a bit of time to get things back to normal and we’ll have the reviews (and hopefully some nice pics) up very soon.
Thanks for you patience.
