Claus Conrad

I created a map of locations of the gym chain Fitness 24Seven to make it easier to find one near me (and you).

I recently listened to an interview with Clint Arthur about his "Last year of your life" program, which I found interesting. The program's five basic steps are:

1. Decide this is the last year of your life.
2. Write down what you want to achieve.
3. Share your goals with a community of people.
4. Create a system where you hold yourself accountable.
5. Congratulate yourself when you achieve your goal.

I was recently asked how a non-certified translator could land smaller freelance jobs. Now I am certainly no expert on this, but I have done a few translations and know a bit or two about outsourcing from a buyer perspective, so here are a couple of suggestions on how I would go about landing smaller tasks.

I experienced very slow speeds when uploading files to a small (m1.small) Amazon EC2 instance using the SCP and SFTP3 protocols with rsync, WinSCP and Tunnelier BitVise - around 30-40 kB/sec.

This is a walkthrough for backing up files to Amazon's data centers, more specifically to an EC2 instance with an EBS root volume. While it is tailored to a UNIX-like environment (as that's what I use - Solaris 10, Debian and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard), all tools used in these scripts are also available for Windows environments. Some adaptation of the commands might be required.