Cav's Place

I guess this is a milestone. Not just because the number is divisible by five, but also because I keep saying that, excepting some truly miraculous developments regarding all important aspects of my quality of life that’d still be in effect after that age, I’m really not keen on living past 50, so this may […]

Climate change is receiving a lot of attention lately. There is the Copenhagen Summit in December, October 24th seems to be the International Day of Climate Action and, of course, the topic of this Blog Action Day is also climate change. But these are just a few events, albeit taking place at very different levels, […]

NASA crashed a lunar satellite under controlled conditions in an attempt to determine whether the Moon holds water ice. Many seem quite excited about the possibility and one has to admit that proving that water exists on the Moon is exciting from a purely scientific point of view, but otherwise I don’t exactly see what […]

My current computer problems reminded me of a few things I read some time ago. I’m actually quite surprised that I haven’t already written about this, but then again there are a lot of things I never get around to writing about, many of them being on my mind far more than this. I’m talking […]

Yet another Seagate HDD decides to trouble me. The exact model is ST3500320NS, though on that page it says it has 16 Mb of cache and mine has 32 Mb, or at least that’s what it says. I really bought it thinking it’d be very reliable, seeing as it’s supposedly built specifically for reliability, but […]