Computes are stupid but people are geniuses. I was recording music for an upcoming show. I moved the files to my external Hard Drive, then went to delete them. Not sure if they failed to delete or I failed to multi-task correctly. Either way I couldn’t boot up my Mac cos I had run out of memory. So what did I do? I asked myself the perennial question that usually provides all solutions: What would Prince do? Answer: Throw out the machine, the project and all the people around him and start a new recording session.
I couldn’t agree with Prince on this one so I pretended to ask my other source of info: Homer Simpson. Homer responded. “You won’t find your answers at the bottom of a beer glass.. you’ll find them on T.V! “
I think Homer was nearly right. The ultimate Knowledge Management tool is the web. I remember helping a friend out who is in her 40s. She had a problem with her boiler. Instead of lifting a hammer to it I which is what she was expecting me to do I consulted the web and duly had it up and running in under 10 minutes.
My point in this is that if you have a problem and can’t be bothered paying for a solution or can’t be arsed waiting for some genius to get back to you, go to the web as some other genius will have written about it already. I’m now writing UNIX code to delete corrupted audio files. Who would have thought? If it made any sense to her I would call my mother to impress her. Instead I think I’ll call my sister and wish her a happy birthday. Happy Birthday Máire.
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