alexpgp | This and that...

I had loads of fun (not!) trying to download a 350 MB zip file of all the files in my hosting account directory. I must've tried a dozen times, and each time, things went well for about the first hundred megs, after which the process sort of trailed off into nothingness.

Changing browsers did not help.

Once, I got almost entirely through the download, only to have it die at the 99% level.

Fortunately, a bit of quick thinking (and Filezilla) allowed me to move the file to a directory I could get at via ftp.

All of the issued having to do with IP addresses appear to have been solved, and I even got a refund for an IP address "rental" that I really didn't need.

* * *I thought I was a pretty advanced org-mode user until I stumbled across just how easy it is to keep a personal journal of "who did what to whom, on what day, and for what amount." I now do this in parallel with my org-mode to-do list, and it's pretty powerful.

I suspect that trying to teach anyone how to go about doing this would encounter resistance, unless said student was already something of a fan of emacs (or had few compunctions about learning how to use that venerable editor).

Time to go get ready for the last tai chi workout of the year...