Random Geekage

A lot of folk these days are using Gmail as their email provider. There are some good (interface is the best I have used) and bad (the whole cloud computing thing) points to this. An entry on Digg popped up in my news feeds with a link to a program called Gmail Backup. It does exactly what it says. You give it your login details, pick a folder and it dumps all your email into that folder so in the event of Google being evil, you have a backup of all your mail. Very handy.

Comes in both Windows and Linux flavours. The Linux one needs a copy of wxpython installed. There is a command line mac version but it is unsupported.

Weblog backup, cool, email, Gmail, linux, Windows

For a while I had a backup weblog for when my site was down for some reason. Fortunatly, it was never used and was lying dormant. I remembered about a Wordpress plugin that lets Wordpress installs crosspost to Livejournal weblogs (what my backup weblog is). So I went and installed it. The cool thing is it seems to have crossposted all the entries on this weblog which is pretty cool.

So now I have another solution in case things really go sideways with this weblog. No one will be kicking me off the net any time soon. You can take my packets from my cold dead hands (by which time I hope we have technology to transfer consiousness into the net)

Weblog backup, livejournal