Another pen drive

[davidn]

Thanks to my dad coming back from another of his secret missions in China, I now have a very sleek black 1GB pen drive. It's about half the size of my 256MB one, which I will hand down to Jamie, because we treat computer bits like bicycles in this house.

The only problem is that it's so tiny that it was difficult to find a way to attach it to a keyring - there was only a tiny notch in the end of it next to the gigantic LED, and looking through the hilariously-translated manual didn't help. I eventually got the provided bit of thread through it with the aid of two very small screwdrivers - it was an operation akin to performing brain surgery, but I got the thread through just before the whole thing became a Chewin' The Fat "Angry Man" sketch.

This will be a puzzle for another time. But as well as it having four times the capacity, it's also quite a bit faster than my current pendrive. I tested the speed of it with a reasonably sized file - Dante's Inferno by Iced Earth in this case - and the transfer was pretty much instant for its 20MB.

Speaking of Dante's Inferno (and this is admittedly quite a stretch of a link between two disparate subjects), I've spent quite a lot of time this weekend going through Devil May Cry 3. I don't usually find most modern games terribly engaging, but it's genuinely satisfying to play because of the physics-defying impossibility of most of it. The best thing is that it's well aware that it's trying to be a gothic version of The Matrix, and so isn't afraid of just going mad as far as the theatricalness of it is concerned - one of the highlights so far has been chucking two pistol cartridges in to the air during a fight, shooting the oncoming undead for a while, then spinning round and catching the thrown cartridges in the guns on the way past (all in Wachowski-style bullet time, of course). I laughed for hours.