Eastercon

Just booked my train tickets - arriving on Friday afternoon, leaving on Monday at 11-ish.

I seem to be on two panels - Politics of Ankh Morpork on Sunday evening, and one on SF at this years Oscars (and why there wasn't more), which I'm moderating.

Happiness is a warm drink

I've been somewhat amazed not to bump into more links to this study of happiness on LJ, linking moods to keywords, times of day and days of the week.

Their recipe for happiness seems pretty likely. I must give it a go later :->

Backups

I was looking for a cheap backup tool, when I noticed Jungle Disk, who use Amazon's Simple Storage Service as their back-end.

Amazon only charge 15 cents per GB per month for storage, plus 20 cents per GB of transfer. As I want to transfer about 15GB of MP3s to somewhere offsite and update only as/when I get new ones, this strikes me as a fantastically cheap way of doing it.

I had been considering getting myself a networked hard drive and backing up to that, but when it's only going to cost me about $2 a month for storage, I can't really justify the up-front cost of getting one...