World Record Defrag Time

7:30am Tuesday morning. Defrag at 36%

The cyclone seems to have missed us. Pretty much zero rain for the whole time that the cyclone was off the coast. It was funny how most of the town went into panic mode, stocking up on supplies and fuel. The supermarkets were packed with people when Cilla went to do the normal weekly shop with lineups at the check-outs going all the way down the aisle. We heard similar stories from friends that went shopping at different times of the day, so it sounds like the shops had a good week this week. Nothing like fear to drive spending. Just the threat of a natural disaster is enough to open the coin purses of our economically challenged community.

It looks as though a lot of people have stocked up for nothing. The cyclone has missed us completely. It would have turn around completely and double back on itself to present any threat to us now.

We've had some nice cool, breezy and overcast days but it would've been nice to get some rain out of it.

Missed us

It's 4.30pm. The cyclone is keeping it's distance, moving parallel to the coast. We've had a windy day but we havn't had any rain at all.

Defrag is at 27%.

I ordered a new computer.

Hamish approaches

-Image copyright of Bureau of Meteorology.

We're certainly not worried about being blown away. The cyclone seems to be staying off the coast but the Bureau of Meteorology are keeping the warning current for coastal regions between Yeppon and Hervey Bay. We didn't get any rain last night, although we did get 8mm the night before.

This weather makes for some refreshingly cool days though. Overcast skys with a good breeze make it pleasant to work outside.

It's twenty-to-ten and my defrag just clicked over to 21%. Damn Windows sucks!

Defrag & Blog

It's 11:14pm on Sunday night and Cyclone Hamish is knocking at our door. It's just started to rain and the wind is picking up. The cyclone warning on Weatherzone says that it should be off the coast of Gladstone by tomorrow afternoon but by then it should be down to a Category 3.

My computer has been the source and subject of some hostility over the last couple of days as it practically ground to a halt, taking forever to do even the simplest of tasks. I checked 'defrag' and was told that I should defrag my C: drive.

That was early yesterday morning. It's been 'defragging' for going on forty hours now. It's a 250GB HDD with 21% free space - and it's 17% done!

Windows just seems to get in my way when I try to use the computer to do stuff I want to do.

Did you know that OS X has built-in safeguards against fragmentation of data on the hard drive?

Every day of your life that you waste using Microsoft Windows is a day of your life wasted.