A very amusing day

Cassie and I made our .8358 mile circuit this morning uneventfully, thank you, before gearing up for a big day - Cassie by heading off to her indoor bed, and I by getting on the computer to wrap stuff up before dear friend Kevin McKean, in town for the holiday break (Kevin lives in San [...]

Back to first principles

Paul left a thoughtful comment about my post about data, my life, and finding pieces of same. His point is that our ever-more powerful computers still suck at tasks a 4-year-old could easily do (like pick a photo of mommy out of a collection of other random photos). Google works well on the Net, where [...]

The problem with data, aka my ‘life’

My life, please understand, is about a lot more than data (I hope anyway). It’s just that increasingly, everything from the relatively boring (bank transaction records) to downright interesting (my family and other photos, my iTunes collection) are in this world as data, bits on a storage system somewhere, everywhere from my cellphone, iPod, laptop, [...]

The break and the to-do list

The good news is I have just started on a break from radiation and chemo, giving me back a big chunk of daily hours, and hopefully, less fatigue to deal with. Yay. However, it is the week before Christmas, our remodel is in a crucial closing phase and Linda continues to shoulder a gargantuan management [...]

The LAN improves a little

Now that we have a big, easy-to-access, Mac-friendly storage device on the LAN, we’ve begun to move the contents old hard drives over. Last night I moved the contents of a previous server (The mighty ‘Mainframe’, a G4) onto the mini. 40 GB of files from 1999 to 2003 are now at my fingertips, indeed, [...]

Paperless Project gets a new name

It seems a lot to type every time… so I’ve decided to rename it ‘p2.’ Adding yet another acronym to that very special tech universe, attended by a coterie of shadowy monks who only speak in cryptic codes…

The La Cie ‘incident’

Recently I blogged about how, under current circumstances, little things become huge, blow-out-of-all-proportion incidents. Such was the case with a La Cie 500 GB Mini Hub, a big external drive that tucks nicely under my Mac Mini, and has turned it into a miniature, but quite useful server on our private network. The only problem [...]

Small victory for the Paperless Project

While Ray Kurzweil is making billions from his advanced grasp of technology, moi is revelling in a minory victory from my own, rather less sophisticated home-brew tech. A while ago I chronicled the Paperless Project, a personal attempt to take control of these little (and not so little) stacks of paper that keep growing around [...]

Paperless project gets an upgrade, LAN gets a new server

Yesterday I took the train to Palo Alto as usual, but did not head for the Marguerite B Counterclockwise line bus waiting at the Palo Alto Transportation Center. Rather, I took the tunnel under the tracks and made my way East to the Apple Store on University. Linda had a meeting that made it convenient [...]

The Paperless Project produces some positive results

A while back we decided to do something about the drifts of paper that tend to collect, over and over again around gulker.com’s ‘World HQ.’ No sooner do we dispatch one batch of mailed and faxed documents, but another one seems to spontaneouly grow. Finding these documents, on those rare but vital instances when [...]

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