Me no speekee webdu :(
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Bah. I’ve been talking to people about plans for a talk at webdu involving magic tricks (and the odd bit of relevant content) and along with that I was going to rebrand my business and get business cards done up in a deck of playing cards to use for magic / business cards / showbag items etc etc, but I received an email the other day saying I haven’t been accepted 
so that kinda kills that! There are lots of international speakers coming I guess and I’m probably not famous enough 
Oh well maybe next year – not sure what I’ll do about the cards etc but I’ll still be at webdu of course – looking forward to a lot of fun stuff.
Time Machine
I officially feel like a numpty. For reasons I won’t go into I was absolutely exhausted the other day and made the stupid mistake of trying to repartition my macbook pro and put bootcamp on it. Needless to say i manage to cock up the whole thing and wipe my drive.
To my credit, I only said three bad words.
I hadn’t been reconnecting my external hdd as often as I should have been but still I had a number of backups using leopards Time Machine feature – and as it turned out a full system restore was incredibly easy. I just put in my leopard cd, chose to restore a time machine backup and picked the latest date – an hour or two later bob’s yer wossname and my system is restored. Add to that the fact that my business email runs through gmail’s domain accounts now, I used the “recent:” login feature to get back the last 30 days of my mail ( I had a backup from only 10 days ago anyway) and I’ve lost almost nothing!
Ok so now I’m going to be regularly keeping my external drive plugged in for backups, but the experience has made me seriously consider getting a timecapsule – it’s an external hdd with wireless that can be used for seamless automated time machine backups, which I can imagine might save my bacon some time in the future.
For now I’ve moved my itunes library and my virtual machines onto the same external hdd so that will make sure I have it plugged in at least a few times a week, and I’ll try to get into the habit of always plugging it in when I’m at a desk. In short though, Time Machine is absolutely f’ing brilliant.
The other stupid thing I did was write some blog posts. I wrote a few of them, while away at Philip island on a weekend away without internet connectivity (first time in years – it was… unsettling) I noticed the text file of these bloggages on my desktop today and felt stupid again as I realized I never got around to posting them on the actual blog… I feel a partially connected air app coming on!