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. [...]
Bruce Sterling’s State of The World 2009 is one of the most amazing things I’ve read online in a long time. It touches on politics, economics, environmental/global warming, humans/social topics, and The Commons/Copyright. Some of it was really scary, some really exciting, some really interesting. All of it, however, was different to anything else I’d [...]
Here’s a great example of becoming more connected and linked in this ‘new digital age’, the age of the semantic web. Which seems to be getting more and more real every day. The next few years are going to be exciting.
Environments are becoming tag/rich, some times they are even embedded with data, such [...]
Since getting back from living a monastic life early this year, I’ve felt hyper connected. I don’t own a TV, I don’t watch movies, so when I’m at home I’m either reading, or more than likely, on the internet. I like to reason that when I’m online I’m blogging, or doing something blog related, but [...]