After many revisions on the basic to-do list idea, I’ve settled on what is essentially a buffer. I love immersing myself in information – books, music, podcasts, blogs, traditional media, emails, radio, newspaper, tv, etc. but there’s just too much to do justice to. If I tried to find a straight path through the mess, [...]
I’ve recently had a number of friends lose large amounts of information (music, essays, and photos that can never be replaced) due to hard drive damage and it has gotten me thinking about how easy backups can be, but how rarely people use them.
Windows – Backup to external hard drive: Backup Magic
Network Linux Box – [...]
I reformat occasionally to clean out all the built up junk and speed things up. The process of backing things up and getting them all set up again takes awhile. Every time I find myself worried that I will forgot something important and discover it only after I’ve hit the “Format Disk” button [...]
Though generally serving as a waste of time and not-so-clever procrastination device, there are a few occasions when lists step in to keep me sane. I’ve recently begun a list of things – random things – I’d like to know more about.
For example:
how to make pad thai
weather prediction
barbeque
the workings of nuclear power
how plumbing works
the art [...]
I’ve been looking for this solution for awhile but only just stumbled across it. Over the years I’ve built up a sizeable collection of music from CDs, family members, friends, free downloads, iTunes purchases, Amazon purchases, etc. Unfortunately, I never restricted myself to a consistent convention for storing and keeping track of these different files.
What [...]
