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Archive for August 2007

casualactivist.org

My friend Mary has started a new blog, casualactivist.org. I think that tackling the great problems of today would be a lot easier if we found a way to make helping accessible to everyone, not just the brave few who are willing/able to throw everything to the wind and devote themselves entirely to a cause. [...]

Backing up my home directory using rdiff-backup

A while back I wrote about my backups scripts I made with rsync. I have since refined my scripts, and am now using rdiff-backup instead, which creates versioned backups. I delete backups older than 6 weeks, so I can roll back to any backup I’ve made in the last 6 weeks. I would prefer if [...]

In case you thought that society was running out of ways to sell things…

Here is my sister Natalie at a gastroenterology conference, posing with two colleagues, a man in an 8-foot anthropomorphized enema suit (none other than EneMan), and a 4-foot cardboard anthropomorphized colon polyp, in front of a backdrop depicting our nation’s capitol.