Archive for February, 2009

February 19, 2009

Twittering

by Josh at 1:45 pm

So, I caved and started twittering.  I found that I could twitter without an increase in what I think of as social media “surface area.”  By that, I mean that I don’t want to have to check more web sites regularlyand I don’t want to have to use more desktop applications (e.g. Tweetdeck) than I [...]

February 17, 2009

The Return of Depression Economics

by Josh at 10:54 pm

The Return Of Depression Economics And The Crisis Of 2008 by Paul Krugman

My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book had the interesting affect of making me feel both smarter and dumber at the same time. Like most people, I have opinions about the economy. I like to put a lot of stock [...]

February 5, 2009

Personal Backup Solution

by Josh at 10:53 pm

About a month ago, I decided to revisit the idea of personal backups.  For some time, I had been backing up some key files to the server where my web sites are hosted.  As it turns out this is a violation of the terms of service for my web host.  A while back, they started [...]