SiC - David Sidwell

As shown on TV last night. Not sure how they decided, but here’s their list counting down to number one:

20. A Fish Called Wanda
19. Dumb & Dumber (1994)
18. Blazing Saddles (1974)
17. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

3. Austin Powers #1: International Man of Mystery (1997)
2. Flying High! (Airplane) (1980)
1. The Life of Brian (1979)

Original list is on the Channel 9 web site.

This is a very subjective topic and I do have some comments:

• I’d rate Flying High as #1 and move Spinal Tap higher up
• Would add Dr Strangelove in to the list
• I’d remove Groundhog Day (I have seen it)
  
• Haven’t seen  Dumb & Dumber, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Party, so can’t comment.

I don’t like ’slapstick’ or ‘physical comedy’ that much, so I did try and watch The Party but I gave up. I’m told it is very funny, so I should give it another shot.

My theory on the above list is that some of the surprise choices are in fact ones that Channel 9 has the rights for…and will probably be showing (again) real soon.

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It just seemed like yesterday when I’d back up my data to 1 CD (that is about 0.7 GB). Yes, this was before I got my first digital camera and my TV card, so I didn’t have that much data.

Now I used DVDs. Specifically single-layer, single sided. They hold about 4.7 GB.

I must admit to wondering (okay, worrying) about the durability of those old CD back ups. What if the media fails? So recently I’ve started consolidating the old CD backups onto DVDs.

It’s about 6:1, I can squash 6 CDs onto 1 DVD.

And so to Blu-Ray. The smallest capacity (single sided, single layer) Blu-Ray disk is 25 GB. So I can further consolidate; copy my DVD back ups onto Blu-Ray. Once I get a burner

The ratio is a pleasant 5:1. So, 5 DVDs onto 1 Blu-Ray disk. Or, if you do the maths, 30 CDs.

So, all of my old data backup CDs can easily fit on the smallest Blu-Ray.