Victor Borge

At the wedding, a small group of us got to raving about how awesome Victor Borge is. I'm sure most of my friends are the sort of highly intelligent, cultured folks who would enjoy the man's genius, so here's something I came across via Weird Universe, which I hadn't seen before.

Lovely Spam

Apparently Facebook has some kind of popularity contest going on among charities. So now world+dog who have my email are sending me tons of spam asking me to visit their Facebook page and vote for them.

Some of them I'd support, but I really don't want to have anything to do with Facebook. Time to go modify my "when it's OK to contact me" settings in a few places.

Backing up

I use 1TB drives dropped into an external USB docking stations as removable media including to back up the internal 1TB drive I use to hold family photos and video.

I've been screwing around with a bunch of different sync programs, and I'm never really happy with them. rsync actually works the best but it's kind of a kludge running on Windows.

While looking for a good solution this evening, I finally ran across Microsoft SyncToy. It's what I wanted. It's dirt simple, and it works. Also it installs as a service and keeps an eye on file renames and moves in source folders, so that when you go to sync, it doesn't wind up deleting and re-copying renamed files like all other solutions I've seen; it just repeats the rename over there.

It also runs in 3 modes; sync (changes on either folder will copy to the other), mirror (dest folder made to look exactly like source when run), and I think echo, which means new files and renames move from source to dest, but no files are ever deleted. I might have the names mixed up.

It's got a clean interface, no more than 3 or 4 controls per screen, uncluttered, and it works.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c26efa36-98e0-4ee9-a7c5-98d0592d8c52&DisplayLang=en