Musings

This is one of the things that I should have been setting up a long time ago, but haven’t. Yesterday was the day. Remote Backup of my PowerBook. Goal: Continuous off-site backup of the most important files (my home directory) on my laptop Ingredients: Strongspace (I got a 4 GiB account for $8 / month) rsync (comes bundled with OS X) Ruby (comes bundled with OS X) SSHKeychain Setting up a Strongspace account is easy. Strongspace gives you secure offline storage that you access through SFTP or anything with SSH (like rsync). The cost is negligible if you care about what you have on your laptop. ...

There are things in the life of an IT engineer that are likely to drive him insane. Not the installation of PostreSQL on OS X. Not writing multithreaded Ruby code. Not looking for performance problems in Java programs, running on Sun Solaris using vmstat, iostat and truss. Not even working with RoboHelp X5 and RoboSource Control Table of Contents. In Word (or in OpenOffice - the two have similar approaches) ...

“Saw it on the net and will need it at some time”-dept: HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML is a nice writeup of things to do and not to do when creating XML. [via Ned] Technorati Tags: bozo, wellformed, xml

One of the Blogosphere’s biggest claim to fame is the ability for conversations to emerge. The readers have the ability to respond back, creating a living two-way environment of interaction. So far so good. Unfortunately, there are a few problems. First the ubiquitous amount of spam that percolates the blogs. I regularly have to clean between 2 and 60 spam comments per day, even though I have anti-spam measures on my blog. Hopefully it will become uninteresting for spammers to spam blogs in some distant future - I’m not holding my breadth though. ...

This is too cool: Onlife looks at what you do in several programs (Safari / Firefox, Mail, iChat, iTunes) and stores all kinds of information about the interaction. You can then tag it (or leave it) and search for it. For example, I’m installing PostgreSQL on my Mac and I found some info on the Apple Developer Connection website about this. If I need this page again, later, I can search for “Postgres” and “I looked at it longer than 2 minutes” and “Safari” ...

Just a collection of links to paper based organization systems: Pocket Mod: Flash based creator for small pocket agendas. Drag and drop layouts, print, fold: ready PigDogPDA: Use a Moleskin notebook for your GTD processing. Looks like it could actually work Moleskin Notebooks: From 43Folders -tips and tricks More Moleskin stuff: also from 43Folder Technorati Tags: arbeitstechnik, kreativ, gtd, planning, reduce, zeitmanangement