The Amalfi Coast - Amazing Vistas

These pictures were taken while walking down from Ravello to Amalfi. They give you some idea of the sheer cliffs and hairpin curve roads that are typical of "La Costiera Amalfitana".



If you are interested in seeing a whole bunch more, you can go to my Italy pictures on Picasa.

Backing up our Windows 2000 Fileserver

At my company we have a lousy old Windows 2000 PC that we use as a "Fileserver". Unfortunately it's not even being backed up, even though I'm using Carbonite to back up everyone's PC. Carbonite does not work on Windows 2000, but I think I finally found something that we can use - Migo Software's PC Backup Pro. I'm giving it a shot, it's not expensive and it has a lot of neat features such as the ability to back up to CD/DVD, hard drive, or even across our network. It's critical that we get this backup going because most of our client files are stored on the fileserver so everyone can access them. I can't imagine the trouble we'd be in if the fileserver crashed...thinking about it, and knowing how old and decrepit that old box is makes me (almost) want to run into work right now and install the Migo Backup stuff.

Next up on my IT to do list is some sort of version control software. I recall buying something years ago for this purpose but it was so hard to configure that I never wound up using it. Any suggestions are welcome.

Italy - the Amalfi Coast, Pompeii, Rome, Paestum

Here I am looking at the cast of a person who died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Spooky, as was the entire city of Pompeii - I was shocked by how large it is. You can walk down street after street, and the streets are lined with houses and shops and public buildings.

There was actually a storage building that was full of all sorts of urns as well as more casts of those who died during the eruption.

The Amphitheatre is very impressive too, and seems quite intact. 20,000 spectators could go there to watch gladiator fights.

Paestum is kind of little brother to Pompeii. It's Greco-Italian (as evidenced by the archeological style). Below is a shot of the Temple of Apollo, which was built in about 450 BC! That's hard to believe. Apparently this small city was abandoned in the Middle Ages due to encroaching swamps that brought disease. There are three large temples and to see them rising
up out of the flat fields is quite impressive.