Krissa’s hard drive is dying, beginning the unpleasant process of rsync dump + restore on the new hd. So- is there a one-click backup/restore tool for single-user machines, along the lines of the backup/restore experience in Time Machine. The Ubuntu folks were working on something along these lines but AFAIK there is no actual code there, or at least none productized/shipping widely.

I’ve been successfully using backuppc for intermediate network-based backups, but one-click restore it ain’t.

If you’re ever in Istanbul, make it a point of getting dinner near the time of the last prayer call at the Golden Horn Hotel Sultanahmet. Bring your camera.

A fragment of Uncle O’s surfboard.

I’m back in New York, still taking stock of the (generally pretty awesome) summer. Two weeks until start of classes; family travel occupying most of my time until then; inbox zero and journal stuff occupying the spaces in between.

Besides all the obvious reasons that I’m pleased to have Krissa around, it is always a real joy to hit a farmer’s market with her. We are well stocked for tomorrow. :)

The San Francisco farmer’s market is a very different beast from the ones in New York- we don’t get citrus and rice (among many other things) in Union Square. You probably really could eat solely from the farmer’s market here, and you just couldn’t in New York.