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Crashplan saved my life on so many occasions, that I had to work a bit to find and fix a relatively hard to spot error in my setup. It was brought to my attention by the very useful backup mails that my Crashplan hadn't done its job for 3 days. This made me shiver with fear of losing a lot of data - i am a bit paranoid when it comes to data. So I treaded the standard way, close the app, close the computer, restart again etc. When all of this did not work I tried re-installing the software, which did not fix the issue. After searching through the product knowledge base I learned that there are two components of Crashplan: one UI that you and I interract, and one Windows service that does all the background work. UI will give you an error in the line of "Unable to connect to the backup service." Which means the background service is dead. If one types services.msc in the commend prompt (which you can access by writing cmn on the start menu), the service manager of Windo...

[33] DYLAN , Bob. Blonde on blonde, record album produced by Bob Johnston, Columbia Records, New York, March 1966, Columbia C2S 841. Anyone who touched computer science territory knows Donald Knuth. In addition to being a founder of Complexity theory, he is also the author of the popular -even ubiquitous- Tex academic typesetting environment. He is also known for his professional humour. His paper on the use of once popular "go to" statements opens up with three quotations. One is a title of one of my favourite Dylan songs. "You will go your way, I'll go mine." This is by far the coolest citation I've read in a scientific paper.

Checkout this seriously cool post on Roger Alsing's blog . He explains how genetic algorithms can be used to draw Mona Lisa using simple poligons who are coded in soft-DNAs. Here is a quote from his webpage, which I loved: "Just because natural selection is so cool that you are able to read this.."

This is a real lifehack. I've been saving pretty much everything interesting in my del.icio.us account. Now with this hack I can search them with tags from the address bar of my Firefox. As a matter of fact, you can use this hack to search on any searchable field in any webpage. 1- Go to any searcahble field in a webpage. Say www.imdb.com 2- Right click on the field, and click Add a keyword for this search. 3- Add the keyword you want to use -imdb- and a name. Basically what it does is it saves a bookmark to the search URL, with a %s placeholder for the search term, which is replaced with the actual search term when you type keyword searchterm in the address bar. I love open source.

As the physicists go searching for the Theory of Everything with LHC the legendary game producer Will Wright -Simcity, Sims- has already come up with the game of everything, The Spore. In this game you lead a bunch of cells through their journey of evolution from oceans of blue earth to galaxies when they evolve into space faring civilizations. I share Frank Drake's enthusiasm about the games potential as a tool to attract more young brains to science, when the number of science students are dropping in the western world. I downloaded the free creature creator, and share it with you my creation. I may buy the game next week, when I have more time.