Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

An update on my computer situation: it was the video card! As bad as it seemed, Ockham's Razor prevailed: there was no video, so it must be the video card. After swapping it with another video card, the computer worked just fine.

Three hardware failures over the last six months. Moments like these highlight the need for a robust system and consistent backup strategy. In programming terms, I see our music system as an MVC system: the Model (the storage system), the View (the stereo or whatever is playing the music) and the Controller (the Media Center or Mac-mini which is controlling what is playing). The next thing I'd like to do is upgrade the Model portion with something like a ReadyNAS or Drobo. This will decouple the music from the computer, making it more resilient to any one computer's failures.

Anyway, as I continue to dream, enjoy the Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star. This popular 80s hit was the first song to run through my head after the relief of fixing the computer washed over me. I somehow turned it into The Video Card Killed the Computer in my head.