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Jessie and I just got back from a 7 day cruise and we very much enjoyed the trip. It’s the first trip in a long time where we were not ready to come home at the end. We were trying to figure out the best way to stow away for the next week.

We took a bunch of pictures and I put the best ones up for general viewing here. I’m pretty happy with how a lot of them came out and I’ve even used a few to make new headers for this site (one showing right now, others may rotate in).

We used the [asa link]B00065L5TO[/asa] for our

[asa link]B00064O89Y[/asa] to take a bunch of pictures while snorkeling and swimming with stingrays. It was a lot of fun.

We spent a while this weekend moving Jessie’s blog from dasBlog to Typo on Textdrive. This gets the last thing off the server in our pantry (formerly the server in the bathroom). She’s still messing with the tweaking the theme but it’s looking pretty good.

For those interested in redirecting using the Typo redirects table should check out this diff to make sure the redirects are working correctly. I went a little further and added a default page rather than the standard “Page not found” text. Here’s what I added to Jessie’s redirect controller.

from = params[:from].join(“/”) if params[:from].kind_of?(Array)
r = Redirect.find_by_from_path(from)
r = Redirect.find_by_from_path(“*”) if !r

And then I added one of her standard pages for the * (default) redirect.

I’ve spent a few nights playing with a new (to me) programming language, Boo. It really feels like the best of C#, Ruby, and Python. If you are interested in writing for the CLI or you are generally interested in programming languages, check out the features page to check out some of the reasons why I’ve been impressed.

If you are interested in trying it out, be sure and grab the new version of SharpDevelop. It’s got built-in support for Boo projects (including Windows Forms editing).

A while back I wrote about using WinSCP to backup files to Strongspace. I like the WinSCP solution, but there are some other more user-friendly backup programs I thought I would check out. Unfortunately, almost every program I checked out only supported FTP. Fortunately, I found BitVise Tunnelier’s ftp bridge that allows you to use FTP applications over FTP. It sets itself up as an FTP server locally that bridges to your real SFTP server.

I’ve heard good things about SyncBack Freeware and decided to try it with Strongspace over the ftp bridge and I’ve been quite pleased.

The first step is to setup Tunnelier. Setup was fairly easy. I turned everything off except for the ftp to sftp bridge. Another advantage to using this method is that it provides quick access to a pretty good SFTP client from the task tray.

Setup Tunnelier to point to your Strongspace account and include your username and password.

Next, setup the FTP to SFTP bridge. If you use 127.0.0.1 then you can only connect to the FTP server from that computer. There are some other options if you want to bridge for other computers on your network.

Turn off the other services in Tunnelier.

This is the standard setup screen for SyncBack. I choose to backup a directory and subdirectories.

Point to the FTP server on the local computer. This will be bridged to Strongspace.

That’s it. Now just setup the backup task schedule in SyncBack and it’ll backup to Strongspace on a schedule.