Thursday, January 23, 2003
I have a widget.No, seriously, I do.
Look, stop sniggering like that, just because I tell you I have a widget, your perverted little mind comes up with all kinds of silly ideas. I guess I'll just have to show you.
Look... stop giggling, damnit! It's nothing like that.
Here it is...
This 'thing' that looks rather like a bottle of typing correction fluid is in fact a solid state 64 Meg USB removable data storage... er... thing.
I first heard mention of these when Batgrl spotted one a few weeks ago and rather raved about it. Sounded like a great idea, and something I could certainly use to transfer a whole load of stuff with from my old tower system to my laptop. The trouble is, there just didn't seem to be any about in this country... at least, not without ordering online, which I never do. So anyway, I spotted this thing in a shop I generally tend to avoid, and decided bugger it... I want it, crappy shop or not, and bought the thing.
It's totally plug and play on XP, though I had to install drivers on Win 98, but it was pretty painless, and has already saved me much grief, transferring two websites, a bot, and some music software all in one go, instead of having to upload and then download via the net to get everything onto this system. The tower doesn't have a CD writer, and using floppies just wasn't viable, so the widget seemd like the best option. Needless to say, I'm a happy geeky chappy.
Steve 9:58 PM [+]
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