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I just knew that when I made this cool photo of Joan Jett in her dumpy Tropicana Motel room in 1977 room that it would become memorable. I was all of about 17!
via Brad Elterman.
I recently bought a Time Capsule from Apple. This wondrous device’s basic function is to provide automated incremental wireless backups of all your Macs using Mac OS X Leopard’s Time Machine; it’s a fantastic invention that makes backing up so easy that perhaps now, finally, home computer users will start protecting their data. (Unfortunately people never seem to realise how valuable their information is until they lose all their baby photos or accounts.) It also provides fast wireless-n networking, Gigabit Ethernet on each of its 4 network ports, a USB2 port for wireless printing or wireless Network Attached Storage (NAS), IPv6, amongst several other features, and is generally an remarkable device.
Unfortunately, it’s not all roses. When the backups are working, it’s brilliant ? indeed, it’s backing up my laptop right now: I can just about hear it whirring away and the Time Machine icon in my menu is rotating ? but when you get the dreaded “Backup Failed” message, that’s when things get interesting?
Last weekend saw the first Convention on Modern Liberty across the UK. Unfortunately I couldn’t attend due to to high travel costs (one of the disadvantages of living on an island), but thankfully they have posted several of the sessions
For Mac users who may (well, will) have trouble otherwise, here are the direct links to the Liberty videos:
First plenary session (normal)
mms://ms.groovygecko.net/groovyg/clients/dowie/modern_liberty_plenary1_700k.wmv
(high quality – 350MB ish)
Second First plenary session – ‘Can liberty survive the slump?’:
mms://ms.groovygecko.net/groovyg/clients/dowie/modern_liberty_plenary2_400k.wmv
(normal)
mms://ms.groovygecko.net/groovyg/clients/dowie/modern_liberty_plenary2_700k.wmv
(high quality – 350MB ish)
Lord Bingham at the ‘Judges and politicians’ session:
mms://ms.groovygecko.net/groovyg/clients/dowie/lord_bingham_400k.wmv
(normal)
mms://ms.groovygecko.net/groovyg/clients/dowie/lord_bingham_700k.wmv
(high quality – 60MB ish)
I’m late on this one, but then I’ve only just watched it.
The original BBC 4 link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b009wynj.shtml?order=aztitle%3Aalphabetical&filter=category%3A100005&scope=iplayercategories&start=10&version_pid=b009wy81
If you don’t have broadband or the iPlayer doesn’t work for you,
It’s due to air on terrestrial TV on Friday 25 April from 9?10PM.
Of course, as with most TV broadcasts of note, it’s available worldwide within a few hours from the usual channels.