January 19, 2008 – 12:19 pm
With the recent announcement of Apple’s Time Capsule product, and the encouragement from Steve to his users to backup their stuff, I thought I’d take a moment to clarify a distinction between what backup means and why you might (in some cases) be archiving rather than “backing up”.
A backup is an extra copy of something [...]
December 29, 2007 – 1:58 pm
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November 29, 2007 – 12:19 am
I just got around to listening to a couple of episodes from the recently restarted podcast formerly known as “The Gillmor Gang” (now just called “The Gang”, I believe, due to some hassles with Podshow which I don’t have all the details on). I haven’t caught up to the latest batch yet, but the first [...]
September 16, 2007 – 11:05 pm
Even though Nate invited me a long time ago, I only just got around to signing up and using Mugshot, the social networking system put together / sponsored by Red Hat.
I eventually did it because I knew Nate was on there, as well as a couple people who aren’t too into the whole blogging thing [...]
August 30, 2007 – 11:02 pm
In one of the cooler applications I’ve heard of lately, Virgil Griffith created wikiscanner, a tool designed to bring to light the sources of edits that may have been made to Wikipedia with less than pure motives.
The NY Times has an entertaining article on it:
Last year a Wikipedia visitor edited the entry for the SeaWorld [...]
August 29, 2007 – 1:26 pm
After reading a couple articles online yesterday, I took the time today to make my desk at work more ergonomically correct. This primarily consisted of hooking up an older erg keyboard I had laying around, and adjusting the monitors to the appropriate height. Everything else was pretty good, although I could do with a better [...]
August 27, 2007 – 12:26 pm
It went so smoothly that I almost forgot to post about it, but I upgraded my server last Friday evening.
I moved up to the latest version of Debian, went from Apache 1.3/PHP4/MySQL4 to Apache 2/PHP5/MySQL5, and got rid of a whole bunch of applications and services that I had installed to play around with but [...]
August 23, 2007 – 2:17 pm
Numerous blogs report receiving an e-mail today from TLA containing the following text:
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August 21, 2007 – 12:00 pm
Amazon has been going crazy lately with their web services offerings.
In case you haven’t heard, Amazon offers a web service called ECS to provide e-commerce functionality to outside applications in a service oriented fashion.
This has been around for a while, and I knew you could use it to interact with their store, but what I [...]
August 20, 2007 – 11:26 am
Courtesy of the Off the Hook radio show, I heard about this news story from Philadelphia regarding surveillance cameras that just goes to show how people / society can get so worked up about something that they end up fighting for / demanding things that might not be in their best interests if they really [...]