Comments for Overpass Experiences

Comment on Importance of back-ups by Edward Sheldon

Edward Sheldon — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:27:00 +0000

Hey Eric, I never usually plug commercial stuff because I know that there is always somebody who will say what I use is not as good as what they use. I just use a few core apps that work for me.When I left the UK a couple of years ago I had almost everything I owned in a shipping container that would not be opened for months. It was packed when we sold up but I continued working for a couple more months at Paribas and then took 6 weeks to hit New Zealand followed by about a month to find a house to rent and get it all delivered.I wanted to be doubley, tripley and quadrupily sure that at least a core of about 50GB or so family photos etc would not be gone forever in a perfect storm of my shipping container lost to pirates, my laptop getting stolen and my portable hard drive giving up the ghost.A service I engaged and continue to use is iDrive. I pay USD49.95 every year and that gives me up to 150GB of storage on the net. The backup client is great. I can time when it kicks into action or set it to continuous. It can also back up folders on network drives. It can keep historical versions of files and do partial updates as well as using pre-compression to save bandwidth. On top of all that I can get back any of my files or folders from any browser via their web access. It is owned by AOL so they should be around for a while.It might be a partial solution to your immediate concerns.Later dude, from down under.EdwardPS. When are you coming to visit. We have plenty of room.

Comment on New Years Resolutions by Priyancka

Priyancka — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:02:58 +0000

I completely agree with Ursula. Its your inner self conscious which pricks more than others. BTW.. I too make make resolutions and not complete all of them. I agree to you that making it a commitment is the fear which stops us.
I think the other way of doing this is making monthly commitments. You can track your progress and its not a compulsion for the entire year. Just 1 month at a time.

Comment on France and Germany say “No IE”—Corporate apps will suffer by Eric Wroolie

Eric Wroolie — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:26:03 +0000

Don’t worry Priyancka. I’m not referring to you guys in particular–I’ve seen it in a lot of places. But yeah, there too

Comment on France and Germany say “No IE”—Corporate apps will suffer by Priyancka

Priyancka — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:04:50 +0000

I know who you are refering to here. And I am actually glad that the govts are intervening and making us use and test other browsers.
Completely agree with you!

Comment on In love with our own lingo by Bj Highfield

Bj Highfield — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:38:00 +0000

Well, the need is definitely there. Whether or not someone cares enough about their customers to pay for that sort of thing is always another story.

Comment on In love with our own lingo by Eric Wroolie

Eric Wroolie — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:26:00 +0000

Wow, Bj. That must be lucrative work with all the bad apps out there.

Comment on In love with our own lingo by Bj Highfield

Bj Highfield — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Good post. Usability and user experience are what I'm all about. As a software interface designer, I'm always pointing out to developers (and pretty much everyone else) that people don't want to pay for software to teach them about computer viruses, they want the software they purchase to get rid of those viruses. The first thing I do is to eliminate the jargon. No one cares about it but us nerds.

Comment on New Years Resolutions by Ursula Stuter

Ursula Stuter — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:29:00 +0000

May you have the best year of your life so far in 2010! By the way, the only one who would mock you for not completing your NY resolution would be you, or your inner critic. The rest of us are trying to figure out how to meet our goals too.

Comment on The Future of Work by Priyancka K Sharma

Priyancka K Sharma — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:54:00 +0000

This is a lovely presentation. Very powerful and realistic.

Comment on Like Zorro by Eric Wroolie

Eric Wroolie — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:01:00 +0000

There's been a few actually. Lucky me. They always make me feel stupid at the time.