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Friday 28th January 2011
DIY USB pen drive fixing things stuff
Okay. So. Picture the scene. M****'s gone out. I'm at home, 'baby-sitting'. I'm not really hungry. I'm onto my fourth can of Kronenbourg. There's nothing on the television (or, even if there was, I'm not really that interested). I'm bored of watching 'Lebanon'. Nothing much happening on the internet . . . all boring, boring, boring. I even resort to doing all the washing up. I even clean the bread board (or whatever you wanna call it - a two-inch thick circular slab of wood) and turn it over. So what now? Of course! Fix the USB pen drive thing that M**** tried to destroy by ramming the hoover against it. So, I did a bit of spammy soldering, got a bit carried away with the glue-gun and thought to myself, surveying this 'thing', 
"What's the chances of this thing working, given that there seems to be a short circuit between earth and one of the outer pins? Hmmmm. I reckon about 5%." So, I plug it in, notice a kind of red glowing on the circuit board and then my computer's like, "Hey, there's some kind of USB storage device thing plugged in. Whaddaya wanna do?" And, of course, I'm like, "Can I browse the files on it?" and it complies. It's all there. All the files I copied onto this USB pen drive, they're all there, intact. So I'm amazed. These things are pretty damn resilient. Anyway, long story short: this pen drive was lent to me by one of my father's friends. The mission: copy off any train-related (Cumbrian Railway Association, of which I think my dad was sometimes secretary) material and put it onto the pen drive. I did the copying, but then M**** had the accident with the hoover. I had to buy Peter a new pen drive, and now I'm copying off material from 'broken' pen drive to new identical pen drive.
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