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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kawasaki, 2020.04.23

I've filled five of the 100GB disks with media and other stuff from my Dropbox account. And I made a duplicate of each. It turns out that the "slim line" burner I bought is really sensitive to jostling so some of the files didn't write properly but this is why I make spares.

Happily this is the kind of thing I can do with my personal laptop while working endlessly on my company laptop. Now I'm ready to go back to a non-paid account on Dropbox. $US250 a year indeed!

rand()m quote

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.