Revisiting my computer backup strategy

October 20, 2011, 8:38 pm

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 […]

October 20th, 2011 | Category: Computing | One comment

My lost GPS is returned by NPS

October 19, 2011, 5:11 pm

Wow! I’m impressed. Grand Teton National Park returned my lost Garmin 62s via overnight FedEx on their nickel. That’s great service. Because its recorded tracks were intact I can (I think) reconstruct what happened. Here’s the deal.

Karen and I had completed a nice 5.5 mile hike to Taggert Lake. As I took off my […]

October 19th, 2011 | Category: Outdoors | 2 comments

Finished the well-rounded cacher challenge

October 18, 2011, 3:03 pm

While not actively caching anymore, I have continued to work on completing the requirements for the Well Rounded Cacher (The Fizzy Challenge) cache. I completed all the requirements a few weeks ago, and Karen and I hiked up the Pine Mountain trail in Big Basin last Saturday to log the final cache. The challenge basically […]

October 18th, 2011 | Category: Geocaching | Leave a comment
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