How I get things done: Staying sane with the aid of technology

I have a lot of things to do, for various people, at various times. If you’re anything like me, you find this rather stressful and much of your time is wasted by simply trying to work out what to do next. This blog post will describe some of the ways I’ve used tools available online […]

Marcus Povey

I have a lot of things to do, for various people, at various times. If you’re anything like me, you find this rather stressful and much of your time is wasted by simply trying to work out what to do next. This blog post will describe some of the ways I’ve used tools available online […]

Labour’s Intercept Modernisation Programme returns from the grave

I suppose it shouldn’t come as any surprise that a government goes back on its word once they get to power, but it nonetheless disappoints to discover that LibCons have resurrected Labour’s batshit insane Intercept Modernisation Programme. Now called the Communications Capabilities Development Programme and containing a few superficial tweaks (namely dispensing with a centralised […]

Marcus Povey

I suppose it shouldn’t come as any surprise that a government goes back on its word once they get to power, but it nonetheless disappoints to discover that LibCons have resurrected Labour’s batshit insane Intercept Modernisation Programme. Now called the Communications Capabilities Development Programme and containing a few superficial tweaks (namely dispensing with a centralised […]

Pondering: Using Git to add history to backups

tl;dr: Use Git to selectively add revision history to existing rsync backups. As anyone knows who has used computers for any length of time knows, hardware failure and data loss is inevitable. Having gone through several hard disk crashes, UPS and power failures and random acts of sleepless root console typing I have become especially […]

Marcus Povey

tl;dr: Use Git to selectively add revision history to existing rsync backups. As anyone knows who has used computers for any length of time knows, hardware failure and data loss is inevitable. Having gone through several hard disk crashes, UPS and power failures and random acts of sleepless root console typing I have become especially […]