Ego Libre

It’s not every day that you need to use a restore from backup, but it is every day that you should backup.
Today, for the first time in my life, I screwed up and deleted my email archive that I did not back up to an external drive as I always do. Couple months worth of email would be gone.

I was starting to get really pissed at myself, when i remembered Time Machine - Leopard’s new backup function.

So I went into the appropriate folder, clicked the Time Machine icon and voila, I went back couple of days and restored my mailboxes.
I mean I used to backup my whole drive in the past, especially with my notebook, but I did like once a month or something. Time machine backs up my whole system every hour! So my advice? Buy an external drive, or even better, the new Time Machine dedicated Wifi router with integrated HDD and let Time Machine do its magic. One day a similar thing like this would happen to you and you will be grateful.

Now it seems obvious. Australia is in the Southern hemisphere and thus has summer when the ‘normal’ time says it should be winter.Logical, right?
But has anyone of you considered the implications of that? I surely have not when I set up my clock one our backwards as I would in winter. But it’s summer time here! So in fact, you need to set it up one hear aheadsds in winter.And that means that inads European summer the difference to Australia is 8 hours, but during European (or North American for that matter winter the difference is 10 hours.
Now that can screw things up
Cheers from summery Melbourne.

Now this might look like I am starting way too slow, you might think:”who cares about that?” But I am at the moment in middle of writing of my Nissan case project and just found a very useful feature of Amazon that you might not know about.
You can use Amazon to search in books. Yeah, well now I know that Google has same feature, but it is still neat as Amazon and Google-searchable books are not the same. That is, if you are unable to search within a book on Amazon, you might be on Google and vice-versa. Anyways, this is just a little productivity tip for those of you who are in same position as me - you read hundreds of books and when you need to refer to them, you cannot remember what page was that particular information or quote one. Well now you have a faster way how to find it then try to guess using index
I will get to some more interesting stuff, bringing in what I have promised in the initial post, but as I have just switched to wordpress, I am still learning how to use it effectively, so consider these posts just my try-out period