Safety first
Think about all the documents, photos and other computer vitals you would lose if your hard drive died now. Wouldn’t that be a massive, massive pain in the bum?
In honour of World Backup Day, I am running a backup on my desktop – it’s been far too long – using my purpose built home file server and a sexy little program called “Syncrify“.
At some point, I hope to actually finish the tutorial I’ve written on setting up a home backup server. For now though, read Part One which details building the machine itself.
Until then, I thoroughly recommend you backup your own machine. Its easy to do, there’s many low tech options:
- Copy your documents and images onto a portable hard drive.
- Burn them onto a few DVDs.
- Or, if they are less than 2Gig total, sign up to Dropbox, and put them there, accessible on all your computers.
Remember guys, it takes a few minutes each week/month/year (if you are as useless as me), but can save a world of heartache!
Introducing: What’s The Storey
Just finished building a new site, for the most talented guitarist I know – Dan Storey. Click the screenshot below to actually check out the site…
Had fun designing this, a pretty minimalist portfolio site, lots of lovely big photos of Dan looking awesome/moronic. Heads up to:
- JPlayer: the HTML5 mp3 player (with Flash fallback).
- Cicle: the (free) font for the navigation and titles.
- Andy Colthart: the great photography (shot in my mate Dave‘s flat)
Anyway, check it out at WhatsTheStorey.com, and if you need a guitarist/producer/dad joke teller, give Dan a shout.
Canaried
At the moment, myself and the lovely Katherine are on holidays in the Canaries. Much as I would like to write more here, for now (its €1 per half hour in the internet cafe) I will just leave you with a picture of me having fun.
And, no, before you ask, I didn’t beat the tide.
Photo Thirty Three – Panorama
The following post is from a series of emails I wrote to my girlfriend at the time, whilst on a trip to Africa. She is now my wife, so I did something right.
Click on that, and see the whole mountain range by our town. Oooh!
Photo Thirty Two – A nice sunset
The following post is from a series of emails I wrote to my girlfriend at the time, whilst on a trip to Africa. She is now my wife, so I did something right.
I didn’t get a photo today, so here’s one I took earlier 
Photo Thirty One – Girraffey!
The following post is from a series of emails I wrote to my girlfriend at the time, whilst on a trip to Africa. She is now my wife, so I did something right.
Can you see me in the mirror?
The giraffe is looking at me!!!!
Photo Thirty – Quadruple your money’s worth
The following post is from a series of emails I wrote to my girlfriend at the time, whilst on a trip to Africa. She is now my wife, so I did something right.
All these pictures are pretty hi res, so click on them to see a bigger one
Can you see the baboons on the rocks in this one. They look far away, but at points they were only about 50 metres away. Pretty scary, but luckily I had a stick!
If I’m honest, I was pretty happy to be taking this photo, and not standing on a 20 foot rock on the edge of a cliff in a strong wind.
Look at the treeseys!
This is where the cross used to be, but some vandals destroyed it it blew over in a storm. Sad eh? Used to look over the whole town. Was beautiful, and lit up at night.
