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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2010.08.22

I've gone through all of the apps I could find for Amazon s3 and they've all let me down.

They just can't be trusted to just run a big upload, always running into trouble almost immediately.

It looks like s3cmd is closer to what I want.

-> automatically set the ACL's (what is the problem with this!!)

-> huge batches no problem

-> silent running option

-> sync option

-> update only option

-> delete if local (original) is gone

I'm backing up 220 GB of raw photo files.

rand()m quote

Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account.

—John Gardner