I’ve posted my (few) pictures of our house and the surrounding houses. Mainly, the two worst-damaged homes that I saw on our street. A picture of one of those is below. (NOTE: THE DISPLAYED PICTURE IS NOT OUR HOUSE) These are from Mandeville, LA. See the “Posted from here” link associated with the [...]

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As far as I can tell, you still can’t call my cell phone because it’s based in New Orleans, even though I’m not there. I set up a new SkypeIn number where you can reach me whenever I have internet access, and leave a message for me when I don’t. It’s 586-486-3220, which is a [...]

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We’re now in Dallas, and trying to decide where to go next. There’s some question as to how long it will take to get power back up in Mandeville, and furthermore whether any stores (especially grocery stores) will be open. I for one am inclined to wait it out at the [...]

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Several months ago, I started making distributed (i.e. on more than one machine), automated, daily backups of my home directries, project and reference directories, and assorted important files.
I have at least one copy of all of these with me on a 500 GB external hard drive. They’re updated until Saturday, when I unhooked my [...]

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LiveJournal posts from people in New Orleans

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