Mighty FAIL

We had to move some shelves in the server room so that a new phone line could be installed.

Very well: unplug the computers, unplug the external drives, stick them on a table elsewhere over the weekend.

Phone line installed, return the computers to the shelves. Discover that there no longer appears to be a socket in the back of the server suitable for connecting the external drives.

Boggle. Contemplate whether one has gone entirely and irredeemably mad, whether one's memories of plugging the drive in earlier and of unplugging it on Friday had been placed in one's memory by some trickster God. Open computer with screwdriver. Discover that the Firewire 800 sockets have sheared off the Firewire 800 card.

I think we will not buy the replacement card from StarTech.

... such as go down to the sea in ships ...

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admlty/2008/3034.html

I can't help thinking that identical cases must have come before similarly-constituted Admiralty Courts for at least the past three thousand years, the Trading Company of Sidon complaining to the Towing Corporation of Zephyrion that the bireme procured to tow three dozen cedar-logs to Kition had been provisioned according to an inaccurate estimate of the draft of the lumber.

Though I would have thought that no ordinarily prudent Phoenician ship-owner would name their vessel "A TURTLE".