Backups, Treos, Vacations

Welcome to the halfway point. Wednesday. How much work have I done on client projects thus far? Honestly? About an hour for one, but it wasn’t major, plus it helped me with one of the things I have been relaxing doing - the joys of working on personal projects vs. someone elses - don’t get me wrong, I love working on Client things, service enhancements, software tweaks and features for websites, but it has been ages since I really sat down and actually poked at one of my projects.

Backups is one of the things I had been wanting to work on, as my home system didn’t have a ‘perfect’ backup solution, but for $8 a month I am trying out a service which thus far I am loving being on Linux to use - rsync to the web, currently rsyncing over ssh -> backup service - wrote a tiny backup script in bash to automate it a bit, but it’s syncing up thunderbird right now, going to set it to do maybe every other night backups - but it also syncs up my Docs from my linux box, and a drop box folder I made, so if I need access to something at work/on the road, it’ll be in the web interface, but more detailed info on this service in a future post.

Treo650… oh how I hate thee. I figured if I was longing for this device, before I shelled out a ton of cash, the least I could do is give it a whirl, so seeing as one of the few providers who carry it is Cingular I called the shop next to my gym to see if they had a demo in stock I could come preview - sure enough the nice lady said they did - went in and checked it out, such a awesome little unit, it is indeed little - but such a good feel in the hand, not too bulky like my brother’s new iPaq Smartphone - all the PalmOS greatness I have come to know and love, plus camera phone, bluetooth - so I’d be set for a lot of goodies, while I still wish Palm offered a hybrid 802.x/memory sd card, for now the GPRS/BT will allow me to do some basic stuff. Come the 18th I find out if I earn $25 a head for the 35 user (soon to be 40) referal of my brother’s work’s cells to T-Mobile, $800+ credit would easily allow me to justify getting the Treo650 from the link below, but then also sell the V551 (Unlocked GSM) and the Tungsten T3 (sexy pda).

Vacation is going well thus far, I did goto the office yesterday, faster upstream than home (2.3mpbs up/down), centrally located in town (aka downtown), and to top of it with the kicker, AC (it was 104F yesterday) so it was nice to hide out, and I did spend time browsing playing with code for this project I am working on for me, made some good headway, but so far my vacation away from Client projects is going well. Today I think I may even go to denny’s for breakfast, biscuts and gravy have been calling my name

Anywhoo - If anyone has any desire to donate a couple bucks to the Treo 650 fund, that would be awesome - as always not required, don’t feel obligated at all - just if you have the desire to you can use the following PayPal donation option: