This is what my computer must feel like.
Original image from Alan Denney on Flickr. Some rights reserved: by-nc-sa.

I finally gave in to my data hoarding tendencies and bought another hard drive for my media server. I told myself last time "three terabytes is plenty, nobody could use up all that space." How wrong I was. I bought a 4 TB drive this time, but I'm sure that it too will be full before long.

When the power supply for my old laptop died a few months ago, I didn't want to spend the $70 that Dell wanted for a new one so I bought a cheap $20 one off Amazon. This promptly broke after a couple of months of use. It stopped charging my laptop but the battery didn't discharge while it was plugged in, so I wasn't bothered that much since I mostly use the computer when it's plugged in anyway.

I got a new laptop last week and I thought I'd try out Arch since I've been getting a little bored with the Debian universe lately. My old laptop had CrunchBang on it, which was fun to play around with and very fast but I thought I'd challenge myself and try something that wasn't based on Debian.

I got bored on Saturday afternoon so I decided to sit down and write a program that would use a neural network to automatically organize my video collection, renaming files with names like The.Conversation.1974.720p.BluRay.x264-AMiABLE [PublicHD] to something more readable like The Conversation (1974). This is my life…

I saw this post on Reddit this afternoon and it reminded me how terrible Google Translate generally is. Here's the image: Someone in the comments also linked to Translation Party, which translates between English and Japanese until the same thing comes out twice. It shows a lot of interesting problems with the model that Google uses to do translations. This one came off of a bottle of Rain-X I had lying around.