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rdiff-backup, another one of those tools you come by and wonder why you've not seen it before. I've lived through all manners of ssh+rsync+tar to handle remote system backups and incremental changes with varying degrees of success. rdiff-backup is beautiful because it is powerful yet so easy to work with. Just install the same rdiff-backup package at both source and destination ends and everything then just works.

Moto as in motorbike and motorcycle. Riding from New York City to San Francisco and blogging about it on the way has been the underlaying motivation to put this site together in the first-place. I'm planning on doing the ride in June 2009 on a Kawasaki KLR650 over the course of 4 weeks. Quick link here for the latest stories.

Securing an ATM is hard. Consider this, you have a small compact (albeit strong and heavy) item stuffed with cash in a publicly accessible place. Unless you can sufficiently protect it, it's going to become a liability.

System reproduction and maintenance is something that becomes a royal pain real quick the moment you have more than just a few machines to look after.

To lessen the pain I make extensive use of Debian/Ubuntu since the package and dependency management system is so robust and dependable. Anyone still trying to deal with RPM pain and wants more free time in their day might also find these distributions helpful.

While I still call Sydney home, I have lived in Manhattan on-and-off here-and-there since 1999 and I must say I've been pretty lucky with the places I've had the pleasure of staying.

I often find deciding on a web layout and theme a royal pain, nicholasdejong.com has been no exception. Drupal has a great community of theme developers and hence has many publicly available themes to make use of, this is a good thing since I'm not much of an artist/graphics person really. Anyway the search for a theme is over and the "chosen one" is Easy Breeze. Clean simple to the point theme really.

onNYTurf does the best online NYC Subway Map I know of.

Madoff sending everything down the sink, though it really seems too kind to think of him employed.

Vegemite is a staple food for starving university students spending their money on beer instead of food and I reckon every Australian that spends any length of time in the USA gets asked about Vegemite at least every 6 weeks or so. So I'm becoming an ambassador for that much loved brown paste and it's the logo for my site.