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Back Up OSX With Rsync

There’s a lot of costly backup applications for OSX, which are nothing more than flashy front-ends for the inbuilt OSX command, rsync. After having a few friend’s HDDs fail recently, it was time to finish my backup solution for a free automated remote backup.
To do this, I coupled rsync, a shell script, idisk, and cron. [...]


Play, Fear, Failure, Me & I

The past few months I’ve been working in a culture that had no play, no acceptance of failure, and a philosophy of fear. Obviously every employee’s perspective and situation are going to be difference, but this is how I see it.
In other parts of my life, I’ve been coding/mashing data up, building services, drawing, [...]


I Get to Buy My First Lunch

A few months, and several hundred visitors ago, I launched a Free Lunch in the About on my homepage.

Today Isadore from Child Soldiers, sent me a tweet;-

From there we jumped onto mail, and it turns out I indeed owe her a lunch. It also turns out there was a hidden hand at play here. Again, [...]


The Next 5,000 Days of the Web

Here’s a video by Kevin Kelly, looking at the next 5,000 days of the web. A very simple and clear video looking at how the internet is developing and why things like Tagging are important. This is a great follow up from my recent post. (via)

Also, here’s a great complimentary concept video created by [...]


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