I hope they are successful in getting everything rebuilt, however I’m going to start backing everything1 up to S3 as well as Strongspace. If I had a failure in my primary storage during this downtime I’d be looking at losing 5 days of work. I should know better.
Engadget – every once in a while I get an urge to use a Windows box, just for a change of pace. Luckily it passes quickly. Who’s the LOL$-obsessed one in this friendship? Hmmmmmm? – heh, the LOLcats sub-culture is truely addictive. S3 News – pretty cool. Theories about Google’s acquisition of Jaiku Daring Fireball:…
Dear Adobe– I have finally received my Adobe CS3 upgrade package, thank you. Since the upgrade process has not been a particularly smooth one, I thought I might share a few thoughts and suggestion with you that I think could help avoid problems like this in the future. A quick recap of my situation: I…
If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Be Only Natural – washingtonpost.com Twitter / stevenwright – Awesome! (thanks Steve) T-Minus One Day: More Countdown to D and a ‘Craplets!’ Surprise for Walt | Kara Swisher | AllThingsD – I love that Kara blogged this. 🙂 Google Reader and Bloglines themes – it’s over…
Carter Bays of How I Met Your Mother: The TV Squad Interview – TV Squad One Man’s Take on Twitter Boom Swagger Boom – awesome. Which compact camera do I recommend? – I’ve asked Eric this myself in the past. Robert Accettura: Firefox Tip: Delete One Item From History – good stuff. The Palm OS…
Why you should watermark web images zonageek: blog: The Geekster Moleskine (thanks John) TidBITS: Coda Plays Web Developers a New Tune – I agree with much of this. Coda: One Week Later – this is why folks love Panic, they get it . New Beyond411 Beta: Twice as fast and easier to use VirtueDesktops: the…
Rootkit – ugh. 🙁 OpenDNS add “shortcuts” – I already use LaunchBar for this functionality, which is akin to editing your HOSTS file. Michael Sitarzewski: Mac laptop, two internal drives? – even supports RAID configs, nice! WordPress Theme Generator – looks pretty nice. Buzz Marketing for Technology: One Bad Blog Can Kill You – this…
Smugmug uploader for Mac OS leaks memory Google Reader Theme // journal // hicksdesign – dead sexy. The Devil & Online Advertising — Young Go Getter Newsvine Beats Digg To Punch from Search Marketing Gurus – who didn’t see this coming? Yahoo, now with less carbon Tech Tour: Ethan and Amy Marry Tech with Design…
Note: This is the ninth in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. One of the big reasons I wanted to put all of the alexking.org content into WordPress was because I’d found that I’d begun putting almost everything into the blog rather than other areas of the site. It wasn’t a…
Welcome to my second annual year in review post. January – Scott and I attend MacWorld and are madly trying to get FeedLounge ready for launch. I finish my digital photo frame and run into the first of what will be several hardware issues in ’06. February – Tasks Pro™ 1.6 and Tasks 2.7 are…
Mac Geekery – The Pain of a Password-Protected Screen Saver – I need to try this work-around. A Super iPod Christmas? – It was down for me in the morning (didn’t try in the afternoon). BBEdit Talk: Placeholders in Clippings – I should learn more about this at some point. Ajaxian – Ajax File uploads…
Since my hard drive issues, and the resulting nightmare with Reynolds Data Recovery1, I’ve done quite a bit to make sure I’ve got proper backup systems in place. My desktop machine is using a RAID 1 configuration, and is backed up nightly to an external drive using SuperDuper. The critical data on my web server…
I would recommend S3 for remote storage, SVN for syncing bookmarks and Google Calendar instead of iCal.
If you’re using JungleDisk on Mac OS X, double check that you’ve un-mounted (ejected) your JungleDisk volume before you quit JungleDisk Monitor1. Failure to do so seems to cause the Mac to freeze, forcing a hard shutdown (and we know a hard shutdown can be a Bad Thing). Even if you’re sure you’ve already done…
The Top Ten Things I Love Most About Woz A missionary position for the Democrats. – By William Saletan – Slate Magazine I thought this was pretty funny until I saw this one iPod Video a Flop? Plus, Our Field Test on Tiny Video Watching Announcing Berry411 3.6: Find what’s best in your city Psychology…