I have been hankering after an iPhone since they supposedly became available here in Spain but on Monday I was in touch with the local Telefonica store and they said they had a long list of people that wanted to buy and still no iPhones to sell. Seems the Yanks are keeping the iPhone to themselves instead of selling in all the world markets that they said they would sell them. 22 countries -  my arse!!

On my day off I went to the nearby techno store to look for a few things and ended up spending my some of the budget on other items, seems like I might have to wait longer even for the iPhone as I don’t have an unlimited supply of cash for things technical. I was on the look out for an external hard disk like the Iomega 500 GB one I have to back up with Leopard’s Time Machine. I think that having only one back up is like not really having a back up at all. What happens if the 500GB disk fails? Sods law dictates that is when something else happens and you have a need of the back up that is no longer there. A second back up makes things secure and also can be done by a different method to extra sure. So the plan is to use Carbon Copy Cloner, to make a disk image.

Anyway I saw a 1 Terrabyte hard disk of the same make and it was for the same price as I bought the 500GB less than 8 months ago. Pretty amazing I thought, it was a no brainer decision to buy it. There were two models and the one with the larger box that has a fan in it was 100 Euro and the smaller box was 130. The drive with the fan is a little noisy but I don’t intend to run it all the time, just when doing the weekly back ups with CCC or maybe with Super Duper

Then on top of buying that I had to get something to be able to listen to the iPod in the car. The cassette adapter I had been using gave up on me. I could have bought another of those but got tempted by a new radio which I now have to fit in the car. It has a USB connector which maybe I can plug in a pen drive or the iPod and even has a slot for a SSD card memory stick. Now where did I put my pliers and screw driver ??