Desert Adventures

South edge of Joshua Tree NP

Last year I attended a geocaching event in the Anza Borrego desert with some friends and had a reasonably good time (I waffle a bit because getting bounced around in the backseat of a Toyota FJ on rough off-road trails is sometimes painful). Since the same event […]

Revisiting my computer backup strategy

Since my disk crash in November of 2009 and subsequent implementation of a disk backup and archiving strategy, I’ve had no further disk crashes. I have, however, followed my backup plan carefully.

OSX Time Machine runs hourly and allows me to recover past versions of files. For a while, I could go back over a […]

Retribution: The Battle for Japan

I just finished reading Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings, a history of WWII in the Pacific. It took some time to slog my way through it. Hastings recounts many personal stories he gathered from letters and verbal histories, and I found it difficult to follow the flow of the overall history […]