Slashdot | Laptop/Server Data Synchronization?:

I’ve been trying to automatically synchronize data between a laptop and a server. When the laptop is connected to the network, I want all writes to automatically propagate across to the server. When the laptop is disconnected I want the laptop user to continue working with the local data. When the laptop is reconnected, I want the data to automatically re-sync. The issue is, the data on the server may have changed as well, which needs to propagate back to the laptop.

(from Slashdot.)

It’s a good question. I think there needs to be more attention toward paid toward how computer users can seamlessly keep data in sync between multiple system. I think the best solution is to have some

…because what jews need to be doing at the end of august making a christmas list, I may never know. In the mean time, there are some things that I’m realizing that I need to look into obtaining that I wouldn’t in the normal course of events get for myself, but need desperately. (This is more for my own recolection than as suggestion to anyone):

• a new `goram <http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003235.html>`_ headphone cord
• a big, stoneware, or similarly constructed tea pot. (ie. not glass. and not a french press)

That is all

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At least I’m on the right track.

In other news, I’ve had a sort of organizational bankrupcy moment (where you just throw your hands up and try a new system, spured by a rather dumb use of the delete button.

On the upside, I’m not sure that I’ve lost anything, truly important.

I have got to get some sort of version control something working. I just need a good structure to start with.

I just check, on a whim, and I realized that I’m… 600 people away from the front of the line on Ravelry. There are 17,000+ behind me.

I think the appropraite word for the present moment is “squee”

And I really am going to have a TealArt entry today.

Cheers, sam

This week. This week has snuck up on me a bit, sorry for getting this post out later than we’ve become accustomed to. I liked having one project for all of last week on TealArt, but it means that I’m a bit behind the swing of things for this week. There will be posts this week. For sure.

I think That I’d like to repost installment #12 of season 1 of Station Keeping in one entry, to make for a better better reading experience. I might make a point of reposting all the entries that I split up as part of the ramp up to the end, but I might backdate those so that they don’t muck up the progression of TealArt as a blog such as it is. I’d also like to get a “Season 1 Roundup,” up at some point soon. As you can probably tell from my use of verb tenses here, I haven’t done this yet.

That’s because I was working on this “open source knitting” project that I’ve been milling over for a few days now. I wrote a series of five TealArt style posts, outlined here that I think lays down some good framework for my work in the future on creating some documentation for knitting in an open-source framework. The first of these essays will go up this week, but I don’t think it would be right to go full bore with them yet, but in the next couple of weeks I’ll get them all out, and hopefully by then I’ll have laid enough of the behind scenes groundwork laid to go forward with the project. It’s cool, so stay tuned.

The other thing I did this weekend, was to get some very good work done on my novella project. I was describing it to someone as sort of “enjoyably classic space opera, with a touch of cyber-punk” but then I realized that it wasn’t really classically style, nor was it in any way space opera, and the tone is rather upbeat for cyber-punk. So whatever; classifications are for weenies and people who have finished product, as I have neither this debate can wait. This means that I have drafts of the first two “chapters”, and a pretty good looking one-page outline of the third chapter. I really enjoy how this is panning out, and it remains a great deal of fun. I’ve never considered novellas before, but the pacing is really fun, and while I’ll be more comfortable when I cross the 10k word mark, I’m really pleased with how this is coming out. How does this relate to this week in TealArt? Well it does--in part--explain why I don’t have anything better to share with you right now, but I would expect that in addition to the knitting pieces, I’ll probably be writing a bit in the future about writing and science fiction related topics, because that’s on my mind.

I hope you all stay well. And I’ll see you throughout the week.

Cheers, tycho

dear Microsoft Mac office design team,

On the whole I am successful in my project to avoid using your products, because they are, as tools, not particularly suited to the kinds of ways that I use my computer. Nevertheless, particularly with regards to programs like Excel, this is unavoidable. Good job there guys.

Nevertheless, I would like to say that it would be really nice if you could stop having your program dump temporary files in my documents folder. I understand your intentions here, but really think that the “Application Support” folder remains the customary place for such files, and I’m getting tired of deleting this folder.

thank you for understanding.

warmest regards, tycho

hello!

I’ve had a pretty good weekend I think. There’s a knitting group this afternoon, and I now have the missing needle that I’ve needed for a while to continue with my knitting progress on a sweater that I put aside a few weeks ago. THe new sweater might need an afterthought hem but that can happen later of course. Also, on the schedule for today is a trip out to get a tea pot. How cool is that?

Other newsbits:

• I’ve completed a series of tealart posts that I’m going to start airing this week or maybe next week. It outlines a cool project that I might be able to start later this year or early next year, depending on what energy I get behind it. Knitting related. I’ve had a lot of fun
• I finished chapter two of the novella. I have a good outline for chapter 3. Chapter 2’s pacing is a bit slower than I intended, and I was worried that I didn’t get enough story done in it, despite the fact that it was jammed full of stuff that needed to be there. Then I did the outline for chapter 3, and it came out perfect. I’m still on track. It’s still early, of course, but this writing experience has felt very much like everything is “clicking into place.” That’s a good thing.
• I culled a lot of my RSS reading, to 121 feeds. At the beginning of the summer I had nearly 500 feeds (many of them had stopped updating, stiil) every time I would hit refresh (per week) I would get ~1200 new items. I got down to about 250. Which meant that I refreshed a couple of times a week, but still had about 400 items to read each time, even if I was pretty regular about it. This new low, cuts out a lot of the things that I wasn’t actively reading, but wanted to “keep an eye on.” It’s hard to be a digital pack rat sometimes. It’s my hope that with fewer things to read, I’ll be able to think of the internet reading that I do as participation in a community, rather than the mass absorption of information. It might also mean that I could start to experiment with other news-reading software, that I’ve wanted to try out, but haven’t had the freedom to really use in a long time.) Vienna, google reader, etc.

This progress also means that I have some more/new tasks to complete, in addition to all the things that are lingering around:

• While I have almost two weeks worth of TealArt posts prepped and ready to go, I don’t have two consecutive weeks of posts ready, so I need to write a few different kinds of posts for this week, to make everything jive right.
• I need to get a start on chapter three of the novella, so that I have something easy to pick up on next week. having at least 500 words and possibly more, would be great, because I’m not going to get much fiction-writing time this week or next.
• Do school stuff.

That’s all for now. We’ll be in touch of course.

So I started a little throw away post here and it turned into a rather ambitious series of TealArt posts that I’ll post in the coming weeks.

I’ve sort of been neglecting TealArt for a number of weeks, using TA posts as “warm up” for fiction and other writing projects, which means I have something of a backlog (woo!) now that Station Keeping is wrapped up for the present.

SK being wrapped up for the present, ironically means I need to spend some time on that project, to get a few episodes taken care of, but I’m trying to make sure I have enough time to dedicate to the novella project. It’s precarious, I tell you.

I’ll be in touch as the weekend goes by, of course.

cheers!