Lost my folders

One of my external hard drive seems to not want to work at 100% .
It is an external Lacie hard drive, with the actual drive supplied by Maxtor.  First I couldn't 
access my Patches folder,7- 12 GBs of data (don't remember exactly).   
About an hour ago I noticed another folder not being accessible either.  This is not looking good.  I don't have enough space/room on my other HDDs to backup so this is getting very very annoying.  The actual drive is
160GBs.
Interesting info is that I was looking for a new HDD (external) the last couple of months, fearing
that I might lose some data eventualy.   Was looking for the 1TB drives (my total data is at slightly less than 1TB), but stopped after checking the price of them.   

Anyone here has a spare large drive to "donate" to me? :)

I tried the Maxtor's utility to check and perhaps repair the drive but apparently my USB keyboard doesn't work when doing that, so I can't press the F8 key that it needs to proceed.  
I might need to get a PS/2 keyboard or something.  
Frustrating. :)

Alive since 1899

No, not a human, but a sports club.  Actualy it didn't even start as a sports club.  

Iraklis is what I am talking about.  First started, with a different name, in 1899 in the then

under Ottoman occupation, Thessaloniki.  It started as a club related to the fine arts. After a few
years it almost abandoned its roots and in 1908 became the athetics sports club that is known as today.  Iraklis FC.

The football (soccer) club doesn't have much to show these days, though it did finish 4th last season, still it is not a contender for any cups or has any chance of winning the league.  Now or in the near future.  Poor management, bad owners and selling of the best players almost every season, do not allow the team to become any better than it is today.  Still I, and others love this team/club and hope or better, dream that one day we will have more to be proud of from it.  

Blessed Mars Bar

Don't know why, but I never liked MARS.  I like each ingredient, just not the final product.

In other less important news, a group of people released, or are going to release, some software
that will help (perhaps) citizens living in countries that impose censorship on accessing the Internet,
 to circumvent that eh limitation. 
You can find the relevant article here.

Anyone else thinks that Dannii Minogue is apart from  very sexy, a very talented artist?


 

Second Post

   Just finished changing some of the settings so that people can actualy read the blog. 
Unlike the 360 of Yahoo! now people that do not have an account here can read it.

A warm day today, about 22C, sunny and with a lot of noise from the street as usual.
Had a heated conversation about stealing and piracy, the music cd type of piracy, not the RRRRR ahoy there! piracy.  My view is that piracy is bad, very bad and that people that do it on a regular base would NOT buy the product even if the product was sold at a reduced price.  Unless there was no other way to buy the product in the first place.  What pissed me off a bit was that the same person was complaining how people are thieves by demanding high prices for their products (any product), especialy since the first Euro days, but of course it is ok for the same person to pirate a music cd or software.  I told her how stupid that argunment was and how a thief complaining of other people stealing is kinda moronic.

Welcome!

    This is my new blog, my name is Efthimios and I welcome you here. 
You can expect almost anything here and it is possible that some of the things will make you feel, well, not good.  Post any comment you want, I won't delete it as long as it is relevant to the topic/post.  More to come soon.