https://youtu.be/5ELQ6u_5YYM Having just watched the first episode I can’t wait to watch the rest! Star Trek will forever remind me of this episode.
Tech
Want 3 months of Backblaze?
Ho Ho Ho! The folks at Backblaze must be feeling the Christmas cheer as they're adding 3 months of Backblaze backup to anyone who signs up within the next 21 days. I’m a huge fan of Backblaze, having paid for the service since 2013 and had to recently use their backup to restore more than 3GB of photos I took on December 1st and 2nd. So, if you’re not backing up your data I can recommend Backblaze. Sign up here for a free trial, and if you buy a subscription you’ll get 3 months free, but only if you sign […]
Photography
The Importance of Backups
How many backups do you have of your important files? I have several backups of my photo archive: * A local rsnapshot (incremental) backup made every six hours. * A local copy of my photos directory, which is a straight copy, including deletions. Synced daily. * A copy on another server synced daily. * An online cloud backup on Backblaze. And I still managed to lose a few days worth of photos. Late last month I took delivery of a new 8TB external drive. I benchmarked it and it was just a bit better than any of my existing drives […]
Tech
Twitter: Prove you’re human
Well, that was weird. I hit like on a sarcastic tweet about Brexit and Twitter forced me to prove I was a human because I broke the rules apparently. It just goes to show that when you rely on a site you don’t control or own to publish you don’t really own your own data. I’m preparing a Twitter backup, just to be careful.
Movies
More like John Slip
Behind the Scenes of the Shooting scene in the Matrix. At about 2 minutes in Keanu Reeves slips and falls. In the final scene they switched camera view. Via this Reddit post.
Music
Queen – We Will Rock You (Raw Sessions Version)
In 1977 Queen released “News of the World”, and this year a 40th Anniversary Edition has been released with outtakes, alternative versions of the whole album and more. Here’s the trailer: I found a playlist on Youtube and it’s great to hear slightly different versions of tracks I know so well but it reminds me that 2 days from now is the anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s death and that makes me sad.
Development
svn: “local file delete, incoming file edit upon update”
Google knows all, most of the time. However, I know I’m in trouble when I the first link returned by a search for an error message in a widely used piece of software is a commit entry adding test scripts for that and related errors to the software. So, just in case you run into this problem where Subversion thinks you have deleted a file locally and someone has updated the same file on the Subversion server you should use the following to fix it: $ svn resolve $ svn revert Tell “svn resolve” to keep local changes (mc) which […]
C64
How to catch my eye in the Newsagent
While in Eason newsagents today I glanced over at the gaming magazines and something caught my eye and brought me back almost 30 years to when my brother and I bought our first copy of Zzap! 64. Future Publishing have a new retro gaming magazine on sale that has a very familiar front cover. The RETRO title will be familiar to Speccy owners, as it looks very similar to the title graphic of Crash magazine, another Newsfield publication from long ago. I had a quick look through the magazine. Not much in the way of C64 games. It did have […]