Archive for September, 2008
Poem: The Shadow
The shadow roams across the skin like that of a sundial,
marking time. It has no counterpart in reality, yet is real.
Peter Pan lost his shadow. Perhaps this geography is his.
The terrain once smooth, perfect in the light of memory,
is sad, worn and populated by fear, isolation, loneliness.
France is found on the elbow. Zimbabwe on the knuckle.
Thank the gods for Time Machine
Time Machine, the backup utility that comes bundled with Mac OS X, really came in handy today when I noticed that lots and lots of music files had vanished without trace from iTunes on the iMac. Some TV shows had gone, and almost the entire discography of Goldfrapp, and probably lots of other stuff I just didn’t notice as missing. It turned out I’d set an application called Synchronize Pro to sync the Home folder between the iMac and my MacBook Pro, without remembering that the Music folder is contained within it. So the application happily spent all day yesterday deleting files on the iMac that weren’t on the laptop. Aagh!
tags: backup, OS X, synchronisation, Time Machine
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