Archive for September, 2007

How not to back up

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Folks, if your “backups” are in the same location as your primary source of data, they ain’t backups.
This is why I use rsync to ensure that there are multiple copies of my working data: two in my house, one at work, and one on wrecking.org. And why I insist that Erin upload full-size photos to [...]

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Saturday, September 29th, 2007

A busy month. So, time for a roundup:
No blogging, but I have been running lately, three times or more most every week. Last Sunday I ran the Quad Cities Half Marathon at 1:57 (8:57/mi). Going out my pace was 8:43, so though I didn’t run a negative split, I’m happy with the result. I was [...]

On the wire, sorta

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

A while back Alex wrote about the NCTE, CCCC and WPA obsession with access, and Jeff picked up with some nice thoughts as well. To recap briefly, these organizations spend way too much effort worrying about access to technology that just isn’t an issue. Notably, Alex made an exception for relative differences in available internet [...]