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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. [...]


Don’t Fuck With the Internet

Back in March a wooden mascot called Mr Pickle was stolen from outside of his shop. In The Mission, Mr Pickle was a bit an icon. A happy pickle about to spray some mayo, in front of a really really awesome sandwich shop. Some people used to walk a few blocks out of their way, [...]


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, [...]


Human Creations

We’re alive in the most wonderful of times, a time where world-class design is infused with even the most humble of items, the toilet brush.
At Target, you can also buy an $8 toilet brush designed by acclaimed architect Michael Graves. And if you’re really a showoff you can try Excalibur, the $32 toilet brush by [...]


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