I’ve recently become obsessed with the Tesla Roadster. It’s a fully electric sports car (not a hybrid) that gets over 200 miles per charge. If I had the money, I would order one now. Unfortunately it’s still a bit outside of my budget at $100,000. But think about how much I’d save on gas. Learn more at Tesla Motors.
Month: May 2008
Initial review of Transport
I haven’t seen any other reviews from other actual customers (other than a comment on some blog), but here’s my initial impression of the service after spending an embarrassing amount of money and trying it out this week: Not ready for prime time. It’s late and I’m tired, so expect a more in-depth explanation possibly at some point this weekend. But for now I’ll tell you this: I haven’t even completed a successful initial backup yet and I’m frustrated.
Hopefully their support services will impress me and this will have a happy ending.
Business time
Tonight I got paid to hang out with nerds and be entertained by Flight of the Conchords at Google I/O. I love my job.
Paraphrased:
“Murray is fictional. That must be confusing for you because you probably thought we were fictional. But we’re real. We’re from New Zealand. We play at all the major search engine functions.”
Nelson and I are parents
Koklynn Yip
sometimes i don’t know if i should just tell one of you something and it’ll automatically propagate…or tell both
Koklynn Yip
like my parents
Koklynn Yip
it’s a struggle
Discussing the big game with Wysz
Mike Leotta
i enjoyed the outcome
Michael Wyszomierski
yeah, it really outcame
Mike Leotta
or came out
Michael Wyszomierski
maybe
Who needs context?
Nelson Bradley
so we use the same toothbrush
Nelson Bradley
and nap together
On backups
After weighing my options for a day, I just signed up for Transport with a 1TB drive and 100GB/month bandwidth. After I get it all set on my machines, I’ll be sharing this with five other family members. It makes sense for what I want. I’m hoping it will be a “set it and forget it” experience, and I’ll let you all know how it goes. Thanks for watching.
What if your balance is $9,999.50?
From my bank:
Annual Percentage Yield (APY) effective as of 3/28/08 on tiers $0-$9,999 and $10,000 and above.
At first I thought, “So it applies to everyone.” But then I realized there are 99 values where it may not.
Nelson the romantic
Nelson Bradley
i only want one affair
Nelson Bradley
and it’ll be an affair that lasts a lifetime
Topic-specific comment spam
After I published my post on potential offsite backup solutions, I got a few comments in my moderation queue. Most of them were obvious spam, on unrelated topics such as gambling. However I did see one comment that made a coherent statement on the subject, and then recommended a site for comparing backup services. Unfortunately for the commenter, I recognized it as the same comment I saw on another blog entry about the subject. On the other blog entry, the comment stood out since it wasn’t exactly relevant to the particular type of backup being discussed, and so I assumed it was spam.
So how can you prevent these sneaky comments from appearing on your blog, without looking at everyone else’s comments? It’s easy: just go to your favorite search engine and enter a portion of the text in quotes, so it searches for the exact phrase. If it brings up results of the same comment on other blogs, you probably want to delete it.
Update: Jason also warns about compliment spam. I know I’ve seen someone fall for this until I politely pointed it out to him.