persistent inappeasable mind

I know there's plenty of backing up/synchronizing software for Mac. I know Time Machine is awesome. But none of the software I tried was able to do it my way . Thus, as I have a Linux/FreeBSD background, I wanted to do it my way and the command line solution seamed to be a good one.

My office Windows machine has plenty of disk space and is rarely used. It was an ideal system (with not so ideal file system) to do backups on.

I'm starting a new blog. I had a blog once which was alive for more than 6 years. But than sadly the hard drive failed in giving out bits and that was the end of the blog as well. I had a backup but it was mighty old and in 4 years I haven't had time (and wish) to put it up again. So there I lost 6 years of personal information .

Now I have a blog again. This time is (hopefully) backed up! Most of the posts will be private and will concern my studies, research and ideas about PIM.

PIM stands for Personal Information Management which studies how people manage their information in the real and digital world(s). It is an interdisciplinary study combining Human Computer Interaction (HCI), cognitive psychology, knowledge management, information retrieval and others. It has attracted several researches who try to understand how people acquire, organize, archive and retrieve their personal information and who try to design new tools to help us manage information in more natural and humane way.