I’ve been using a combination of scripts to do local backups on my Amazon EC2 micro instance I use to serve this website – AutoMySQL Backup and some cron jobs which ran rsync for various paths on a rotation. For example: This is frankly a pretty lazy way to do it. I’m not protected at …
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Facebook’s suggested gifts algorithm needs some work
Some good friends of ours recently had their first child and posted photos on Facebook. When viewing that post on the desktop version of Facebook it had a little ad which suggested giving a gift to them: I don’t think their suggested gifts algorithm is doing a good job of suggesting Fast & Furious 6 …
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Content providers still haven’t figured out physical vs digital pricing
iTunes and Amazon MP3 have been dominating music sales for years now, but there is plenty of evidence that providers have wildly different strategies when it comes to pricing. This is made all the more absurd by Amazon’s AutoRip functionality, where the lines between a digital & physical purchase are even more blurry. Exhibit A …
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My backup solution – CrashPlan & Synology
How I’m using CrashPlan & Synology to make sure my data is safe
The Open Road London (1927 in colour)
I came across a video on Vimeo which contained some lovely images of London in 1927 using an early prototype of color video. I was interested to know more and found that the video only covered a small part of the overall series named The Open Road created by Claude Friese-Greene. While the full video …