Update 2016-02-13: I’m now making use of Duplicity’s “–full-if-older-than” backup option and the “remove-all-but-n-full” clean up mode to keep a moving window of 3 months of backups. This way your backups don’t keep growing and growing. I’ve updated the examples in below. Duplicity – Pleasure and Simplicity in Your Backups If you’re like me, you’ve…
SimXperience AccuForce Pro Steering System
This page has moved to Simwiki.net. Future updates will be on Simwiki.net. Please click here to go to the Simwiki.net. SimXperience AccuForce Pro Steering System I’ve recently received my SimXperience AccuForce Pro and have been enjoying it for the past week. I’ve only owned one other force feedback wheel, a Logitech G27, and this is,…
The Ultimate American Roadtrip
I’ll be honest, I’m linking this article just so I can remember for the next time I have enough money to do something crazy like this. The article is How to Really Drive Across the U.S. Hitting Major Landmarks and it manages to hit every continental US state and nearly every major landmark you’d want…
How to Help ISIS Persecuted Christians #Charity365
The latest atrocities by the Muslim group, ISIS, includes a video of the shooting or beheading deaths of thirty Ethiopian Christians. In previous posts, Charity 360 and Charity 365, I laid out my experience in charitable giving. In the latter post I talked about expanding to include more global and humanitarian groups. If you don’t…
Jewish Passover and Good Friday
Jewish Passover falls on Good Friday this year. Passover remembers the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt during which God told the people to kill a “lamb without blemish” and paint their doorposts with the blood… God said “when I see the blood, I will pass over you and no plague will befall you…
How to find Church Guitar Chords Online
How to find Church Guitar Chords Online For the past half year I’ve been part of a small church where most of our music comes from the hymnal. They’re very, very nice people, though, and are happy to have myself and a friend playing guitar in the front pews. We really enjoy it but…
How to fix WordPress Twenty Eleven Featured Image
I like the Twenty Eleven theme and I still haven’t upgraded it. Luckily, some people are keeping it up to date and compatible with the latest WordPress in 2015! But there was one bug that bothered me for a long time and that was featured images were broken. These are the big header images at…
#Charity365
You can’t give more than 100% but many giving even 1% can accomplish much, much more. Five years ago I wrote about the struggle to begin giving charitably. My original concerns included questions such as “What charities would I give to?“, and “How do I donate in a personally satisfying and sustainable way?” It’s amazing…
Sanctus Valentinus: Behind the Verse
Oh, Saint, to your name, thereof, My question is this, what is love? On a warm summer’s day, sunshine beaming down on country fields, and in the vibrant spring of my life, many, many years ago now, I once spoke these fateful words to a certain girl I liked very much: I don’t know what…