Ever since the death of Google Reader, I have avoided finding another RSS reader. I already have Pocket, which as of today reminds me that I have 1,459 unread web pages. Isn’t that enough? Apparently not for me. Still, I also am not a tech reporter who needs (or feels he needs) to stay on …
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Audible.com Daily Deals
Back in 2001 when I first started subscribing to Audible, you got one free book a month. I stopped subscribing when I went through some lean years and never went back. I agree with Ramit Sethi that, in some cases, buying something as I need it or want it is better than subscribing. I subscribe …
Ursula K. Le Guin
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven I am also a supporter of a Kickstarter-backed documentary on Le Guin.
LIBRARY SCIENCE
She’d gone to school for years to study library science. He didn’t see how it could be so complicated. It seemed like a hoax. J.D. Daniels, “Letter from Devils Tower,” The Correspondence
BACKUPS (CONT’D)
Well, that was interesting. I logged in to Liz’s account to back up her home directory to my Lacie portable drive. While there, I thought, “Let’s see if Time Machine will back up to the Time Capsule from here.” Apparently, it did. Although it reported the copying stopped with an error, it was a different …
LOGITECH K811 KEYBOARD
I had a full-sized wired aluminum Mac keyboard for years. I used it with the MacBook and later with the iMac. After the 2015 break-in, the police came and did that thing that reassures homeowners but that rarely yields usable results: dusting for fingerprints. That left me with a Mac keyboard that not only …
BACKUPS (cont’d)
So, backups. On my Time Capsule (ca. 2015) I get the same bland unhelpful error message described on this blog post. I got the same error message when I moved the Time Machine backup to my Western Digital 2TB external drive (ca. 2010). I’ve been using the latter mainly for miscellaneous photos, DVD rips, and …
EVERYTHING IS A MESS AND ALL IS WELL
At the start of Awareness, Anthony deMello shares the secret divulged by all mystics of all faiths, [A]ll is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having …
SNOWSCAPES – DAY AND NIGHT
Durham NC got about 8-11 inches of snow today. Here’s a shot from our backyard (taken by Liz) this afternoon, and from our front porch this evening.
FROM CRASHPLAN TO BACKBLAZE
After I renewed my Crashplan subscription last August, they announced, bless their hearts, they were leaving the consumer space to focus on business-only plans. The Crashplan folks have generally been derided and criticized for that, but let’s count our blessings. They did not just pull the plug on my account so the data is unavailable. …
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