a crank’s progress

Fortune.com - Magazine - We’ve Got to Stop Eating Like This
The broader point is that human diets are eminently changeable; they change all the time, and there is nothing inexorable about the national drift toward bloat. There is also nothing immutable about the swill that people buy in supermarkets and restaurants. A generation ago it [...]

The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level
Score

Purgatory (Repenting Believers)
Very Low

Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)
High

Level 2 (Lustful)
Moderate

Level 3 (Gluttonous)
High

Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)
Low

Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)
Low

Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)
Very High

Level [...]

Put this script on your crontab:

#!/bin/sh
/sbin/mount_smbfs //username@server/share /Volumes/share
cd ${HOME}/Documents/
find . -mtime -1 -a \! -type d -exec cp -rp {} /Volumes/server/username/Documents/ \;

It mounts a server share that you know gets backed up, finds all your files that got touched today, and copies them to your directory on the share.
Set it and forget it.

I got this working and thought it worth putting down here for my own memory, and perhaps to help someone else.
It’s possible to mount Windows (a/k/a CIFS or samba) shares on the command line. You need to create a .nsmbrc file (not unlike a .netrc file), and populate it like the one below. This [...]

Apple - iPod
The new super-slim iPod once again redefines what a digital music player should be. It’s lighter than 2 CDs, can hold up to 7500 songs, and downloads music at blazing speeds. Now you can take your entire music collection with you wherever you go.
. . . . . if Amazon.com had the new [...]

Anonymous bulk email software for online advertising!
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I found this site in my [...]

Brad Choate: 802.11n and Gigabit ethernet
This could be dangerous to the pocketbook (does every home need Gigabit ethernet? maybe not, but at $160 now, how cheap will it be in a year’s time?). And then we add 320 Mbps wireless (802.11n): you’ll be able to cook food on your wireless access point.

NCSA - The Future Frontier: Computing on NCSA Mosaic’s 10th Anniversary
On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host five of the nation’s leading technologists to explore the future of computing and networking. This panel discussion will celebrate the 10th anniversary of NCSA’s release [...]

Business 2.0 - Web Article - Management by Blog?
“It’s only a matter of time before we have a blogging system that’s able to measure the intellectual climate of employees, that can get at the sorts of questions that managers need to know the answers to. What do people think of the new parking garage? What [...]

University Week - Vol. 20, No. 21 - Workers seek information from people they already know, study shows
The study by UW Information School professor Raya Fidel and assistant professor Maurice Green will be published in the journal Information Processing and Management.

“The human side of information-seeking is so important,” Fidel said. “This shows that companies would [...]