March 17, 2016
Finished at the first of the three today. It didn't end so badly. Two children (Takata Hinata & Hamamaki Shiho) got upset when they heard the news. I was surprised at that. Maybe I made more of an impression than I thought.
Tomorrow, I finish at another school.
March 16, 2016
Spending the evening on resumé writing and letters. I am not really used to writing in Open Office so it's a little slow getting things formatted exactly how I would like it.
March 15, 2016
The Supernatural Tales Blog are running a poll on their favourite Robert Aickman story.
The nominations are:
You can add yours to the list by heading over to Supernatural Tales and letting them know.
March 14, 2016
I've been using Dropbox since it first came out and I always knew it ran on Amazon S3. Not anymore. Apparently, two and a half years ago, Dropbox began to build their own storage infrastructure.
Vice President of engineering, Aditya Agarwal:
Just getting the bits out of Amazon and into other data centers was an epic task. Digitally moving petabytes of data from one machine to another isn’t exactly on the same scale as downloading a few songs for your laptop. Even the fattest Internet pipes only have so much bandwidth. Transferring four petabytes of data, it turned out, took about a day.
You can read the full article on Wired.
March 14, 2016
Found a bottle of vintage Obsession for a very reasonable price. It's one of my favourite fragrances from the 1980s. I don't imagine many people wear it now - the original formula is pretty strong by today's standards. I still like it because it hasn't really ever been copied faithfully. The modern-day version is pretty weak by comparison.
I found a copy of Madonna's debut album today - a Japanese first pressing with the matrix 32XD-318.
I've been watching Billions, the TV drama about the power struggle between a hedge-fund manager and and a U.S attorney. It's fun to watch. A bit of escapism. An hour a week spent watching ludicrously wealthy people fight each other.