... don't they? It's such a lovely, peaceful, orderly thing to watch.

Unfortunately, this defrag has been going on for 3 hours now and is the result of my poor PC crashing every 20 minutes or so, so I felt it was better to sacrifice a little study time and ensure that the hard disk wasn't about to fail or anything. But there don't seem to be any errors on the disk fortunately (and touching every bit of wood I can find) and hopefully it'll end soon.

So I amused myself by videoing the process. Nothing to Adrian Miles' vog entries, of course - and not a proper vogging according to his principles: it's just video in a blog, after all, nothing more - but a first attempt for both taking MPEG movies on my camera and using Quicktime Pro which has been sitting about here for about the past 3 years waiting to be played with. I'm finding Miles' blog a really interesting read and nearly cheered at today's entry which summed up a lot of my objections to video on the web. So many people seem to use it just for the sake of being able to say "my site's got video" (this is rife in the corporate sector) when the content could be better expressed as text, maybe with a couple of photos. I guess this objection is why I've always steered clear of video myself - until today, when my fairly trashed brain saw the defrag screen and felt a need to share it with the world...