UPDATE(new-years-backups): Tweaks.

assets/editorial/09final/integrity-new-years-backups/new-years-backups.html

@@ -33,12 +33,12 @@
 <center><h1 class="frontispiece">Almanack</h1></center>
 <header id="title-block-header">
 <h1 class="title">Look Back Up</h1>
-<p class="author">Integrity Mather</p>
+<p class="author"><a href="/~integrity/">Integrity Mather</a></p>
 <p class="date">January 1, 2024</p>
 </header>
 <div class="maintext">
 <p><img src="res/new-years-backups-initial.png" class="initial"
-alt="T" /> he year ends, the North pole tips its deepest bow to the
+alt="T" /> he year ends, the North Pole tips its deepest bow to the
 darkness, and we see even large language models have been <a
 href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/is-chatgpt-becoming-lazier-because-its-december-people-run-tests-to-find-out/">taking
 it easy</a> for the winter<a href="#fn1" class="footnote-ref"
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ working as they should. An untested backup is no backup at all, said the
 wise elders of the <a
 href="http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sysadmin-recovery/">Scary Devil
 Monastery</a><a href="#fn2" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref2"
-role="doc-noteref"><sup>2</sup></a> and if we want to set the new year
+role="doc-noteref"><sup>2</sup></a>, and if we want to set the new year
 off to its best start, we should ensure we can pause, tear down, and
 re-start its march, even at its lowest points.</p>
 <p>When examining my backup and restore process, I took the opportunity
@@ -132,19 +132,18 @@ do not lightly emphasize relaxation.</p>
 I did occasionally carol a high-pitched note or two of concern.</p>
 <p>Two hefty snowbanks stood between me and a perfectly clean restore.
 Since I first installed it, I have had REAR create ISO files for burning
-onto a CD-ROM that I could restore from. “CD’ stand now for”Cretaceous
+onto a rescue CD-ROM. “CD” now stands for “Cretaceous Disk”: I have not
-Disk”: I have not used one for over a decade. Pouring a bootable ISO
+used one for over a decade. Pouring a bootable ISO into a contemporary
-into a contemporary USB drive drive turns out to be surprisingly tricky,
+USB drive drive turns out to be surprisingly tricky, and I can never
-and I can never remember how to do it. In the end, I was forced,
+remember how to do it. In the end, I was forced, humiliatingly, to read
-humiliatingly, to read <a
+<a href="https://relax-and-recover.org/documentation/faq">REAR’s
-href="https://relax-and-recover.org/documentation/faq">REAR’s FAQ</a>,
+FAQ</a>, where they recommended a meatier graphical utility, <a
-where they recommended a meatier graphical utility, <a
 href="https://unetbootin.github.io/">UnetBootin</a>, for achieving this.
 In the future, I’ve set REAR to output those bootable blobs as <a
 href="https://relax-and-recover.org/rear-user-guide/basics/configuration.html">RAWDISK</a>,
 which can be burned (warmed?) onto a USB drive.</p>
 <p>REAR’s ecumenical acceptance of external backup programs can
-introduce a tremors into its solid scripts. My use of a distribution <a
+introduce tremors into its solid scripts. My use of a distribution <a
 href="https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/master/usr/share/rear/conf/examples/borg-example.conf">borg
 backup</a> package broke the restore. REAR <a
 href="https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/0bd84e259c7c61612a1d8eb296ee1e81a2cbc87b/usr/share/rear/build/default/990_verify_rootfs.sh#L51">scans
@@ -152,7 +151,7 @@ executables</a> that it plans to include on its rescue bootable blob to
 detect what libraries they require, so that it may copy those over.
 Sadly, the borg executable can be either a binary executable – for which
 this suffices – or a Python script, whose demands REAR cannot fathom.
-This is undoubtedly a bug a future REAR will fix. In the meantime I
+This is undoubtedly a bug a future REAR will fix. In the meantime, I
 copied over the <a
 href="https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html#standalone-binary">binary
 borg</a> into <code>/usr/local/bin</code> instead of the Pythonic borg
@@ -168,15 +167,15 @@ like a lucky <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlrvzLRgzdc">North
 Sea seafarer</a>, bobbed back up from an early visit to “<a
 href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddler%27s_Green">Fiddler’s
 Green</a>”.</p>
-<p>Testing your recovery plans during your own end-of-year downtime
+<p>Testing your recovery plans during your end-of-year downtime gives
-gives you a moment to look back at the record of what has been, and
+you a moment to look back at the record of what has been, and prepare
-prepare for the ups and downs of the coming year. What will be the same?
+for the ups and downs of the coming year. What will be the same? What
-What will change? What parts of your life can you simply hard link to
+will change? What parts of your life can you simply hard link to the
-the habits of the past? And what will you have to incrementally add and
+habits of the past? And what will you have to incrementally add and
 integrate into your ever-evolving life?</p>
 </div>
 <div class="signoff">
-<p><a href="/~integrity/">~Integrity Mather</a></p>
+<p>~<a href="/~integrity/">Integrity Mather</a></p>
 </div>
 <section id="footnotes" class="footnotes footnotes-end-of-document"
 role="doc-endnotes">
@@ -195,11 +194,12 @@ memo on the phenomenon, “The True Meaning of Wintermute: Northern
 Hemisphere Seasonability in Tessier-Ashpool AIs”, Automatic Jack,
 Almnck. 1981.<a href="#fnref1" class="footnote-back"
 role="doc-backlink">↩︎</a></p></li>
-<li id="fn2"><p><code>alt.sysadmin.recovery</code>‘s monastic wisdom, is
+<li id="fn2"><p><code>alt.sysadmin.recovery</code>’s monastic wisdom is
-only dimly remembered now that posting to Usenet and painting your nails
+only dimly remembered, now that posting to Usenet and painting your
-black are no longer professional requirements for ops. The newsgroup
+nails black are no longer professional requirements for ops. The
-provided several powerful and vile proverbs on the importance of
+newsgroup provided several powerful and vile proverbs on the importance
-backups, the foulest of which remain unrecorded in Heather Garvey’s <a
+of backups, the foulest of which remain unrecorded in Heather Garvey’s
+<a
 href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060423055444/http://home.xnet.com/~raven/Sysadmin/ASR.Quotes.html">extant
 quotes file</a>. Garvey’s document was, you may note, updated mere hours
 before Y2K day. This lends some credence to the theory that an eldritch

assets/editorial/09final/integrity-new-years-backups/new-years-backups.md

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-author: Integrity Mather
+author: "[Integrity Mather](/~integrity/)"
 title: Look Back Up
 date: January 1, 2024
 --- 
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ While I was never *not* relaxed during my holiday restoration. I did
 occasionally carol a high-pitched note or two of concern. 
 
 Two hefty snowbanks stood between me and a perfectly clean restore. Since I
-first installed it, I have had REAR create ISO files for burning onto a rescue CD-ROM. "CD" stand now for "Cretaceous Disk": I have not
+first installed it, I have had REAR create ISO files for burning onto a rescue CD-ROM. "CD" now stands for "Cretaceous Disk": I have not
 used one for over a decade. Pouring a bootable ISO into a contemporary USB
 drive drive turns out to be surprisingly tricky, and I can never remember how
 to do it. In the end, I was forced, humiliatingly, to read [REAR's
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ you have to incrementally add and integrate into your ever-evolving life?
 :::
 
 ::: {.signoff}
-[~Integrity Mather](/~integrity/)
+~[Integrity Mather](/~integrity/)
 :::
 
 [^winterbreak]: Are the rumors of an AI Winter true? Do LLMs get lazier during
@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ you have to incrementally add and integrate into your ever-evolving life?
     phenomenon, "The True Meaning of Wintermute: Northern Hemisphere
     Seasonability in Tessier-Ashpool AIs", Automatic Jack, Almnck. 1981.
 
-[^scarydevilmonastery]: `alt.sysadmin.recovery`'s monastic wisdom, is only dimly
+[^scarydevilmonastery]: `alt.sysadmin.recovery`\’s monastic wisdom is only dimly
-    remembered now that posting to Usenet and painting your nails black are no
+    remembered, now that posting to Usenet and painting your nails black are no
     longer professional requirements for ops. The newsgroup provided several
     powerful and vile proverbs on the importance of  backups, the foulest of
     which remain unrecorded in Heather Garvey's [extant quotes

web/static/index.html

@@ -33,12 +33,12 @@
 <center><h1 class="frontispiece">Almanack</h1></center>
 <header id="title-block-header">
 <h1 class="title">Look Back Up</h1>
-<p class="author">Integrity Mather</p>
+<p class="author"><a href="/~integrity/">Integrity Mather</a></p>
 <p class="date">January 1, 2024</p>
 </header>
 <div class="maintext">
 <p><img src="res/new-years-backups-initial.png" class="initial"
-alt="T" /> he year ends, the North pole tips its deepest bow to the
+alt="T" /> he year ends, the North Pole tips its deepest bow to the
 darkness, and we see even large language models have been <a
 href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/is-chatgpt-becoming-lazier-because-its-december-people-run-tests-to-find-out/">taking
 it easy</a> for the winter<a href="#fn1" class="footnote-ref"
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ working as they should. An untested backup is no backup at all, said the
 wise elders of the <a
 href="http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sysadmin-recovery/">Scary Devil
 Monastery</a><a href="#fn2" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref2"
-role="doc-noteref"><sup>2</sup></a> and if we want to set the new year
+role="doc-noteref"><sup>2</sup></a>, and if we want to set the new year
 off to its best start, we should ensure we can pause, tear down, and
 re-start its march, even at its lowest points.</p>
 <p>When examining my backup and restore process, I took the opportunity
@@ -132,19 +132,18 @@ do not lightly emphasize relaxation.</p>
 I did occasionally carol a high-pitched note or two of concern.</p>
 <p>Two hefty snowbanks stood between me and a perfectly clean restore.
 Since I first installed it, I have had REAR create ISO files for burning
-onto a CD-ROM that I could restore from. “CD’ stand now for”Cretaceous
+onto a rescue CD-ROM. “CD” now stands for “Cretaceous Disk”: I have not
-Disk”: I have not used one for over a decade. Pouring a bootable ISO
+used one for over a decade. Pouring a bootable ISO into a contemporary
-into a contemporary USB drive drive turns out to be surprisingly tricky,
+USB drive drive turns out to be surprisingly tricky, and I can never
-and I can never remember how to do it. In the end, I was forced,
+remember how to do it. In the end, I was forced, humiliatingly, to read
-humiliatingly, to read <a
+<a href="https://relax-and-recover.org/documentation/faq">REAR’s
-href="https://relax-and-recover.org/documentation/faq">REAR’s FAQ</a>,
+FAQ</a>, where they recommended a meatier graphical utility, <a
-where they recommended a meatier graphical utility, <a
 href="https://unetbootin.github.io/">UnetBootin</a>, for achieving this.
 In the future, I’ve set REAR to output those bootable blobs as <a
 href="https://relax-and-recover.org/rear-user-guide/basics/configuration.html">RAWDISK</a>,
 which can be burned (warmed?) onto a USB drive.</p>
 <p>REAR’s ecumenical acceptance of external backup programs can
-introduce a tremors into its solid scripts. My use of a distribution <a
+introduce tremors into its solid scripts. My use of a distribution <a
 href="https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/master/usr/share/rear/conf/examples/borg-example.conf">borg
 backup</a> package broke the restore. REAR <a
 href="https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/0bd84e259c7c61612a1d8eb296ee1e81a2cbc87b/usr/share/rear/build/default/990_verify_rootfs.sh#L51">scans
@@ -152,7 +151,7 @@ executables</a> that it plans to include on its rescue bootable blob to
 detect what libraries they require, so that it may copy those over.
 Sadly, the borg executable can be either a binary executable – for which
 this suffices – or a Python script, whose demands REAR cannot fathom.
-This is undoubtedly a bug a future REAR will fix. In the meantime I
+This is undoubtedly a bug a future REAR will fix. In the meantime, I
 copied over the <a
 href="https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html#standalone-binary">binary
 borg</a> into <code>/usr/local/bin</code> instead of the Pythonic borg
@@ -168,15 +167,15 @@ like a lucky <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlrvzLRgzdc">North
 Sea seafarer</a>, bobbed back up from an early visit to “<a
 href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddler%27s_Green">Fiddler’s
 Green</a>”.</p>
-<p>Testing your recovery plans during your own end-of-year downtime
+<p>Testing your recovery plans during your end-of-year downtime gives
-gives you a moment to look back at the record of what has been, and
+you a moment to look back at the record of what has been, and prepare
-prepare for the ups and downs of the coming year. What will be the same?
+for the ups and downs of the coming year. What will be the same? What
-What will change? What parts of your life can you simply hard link to
+will change? What parts of your life can you simply hard link to the
-the habits of the past? And what will you have to incrementally add and
+habits of the past? And what will you have to incrementally add and
 integrate into your ever-evolving life?</p>
 </div>
 <div class="signoff">
-<p><a href="/~integrity/">~Integrity Mather</a></p>
+<p>~<a href="/~integrity/">Integrity Mather</a></p>
 </div>
 <section id="footnotes" class="footnotes footnotes-end-of-document"
 role="doc-endnotes">
@@ -195,11 +194,12 @@ memo on the phenomenon, “The True Meaning of Wintermute: Northern
 Hemisphere Seasonability in Tessier-Ashpool AIs”, Automatic Jack,
 Almnck. 1981.<a href="#fnref1" class="footnote-back"
 role="doc-backlink">↩︎</a></p></li>
-<li id="fn2"><p><code>alt.sysadmin.recovery</code>‘s monastic wisdom, is
+<li id="fn2"><p><code>alt.sysadmin.recovery</code>’s monastic wisdom is
-only dimly remembered now that posting to Usenet and painting your nails
+only dimly remembered, now that posting to Usenet and painting your
-black are no longer professional requirements for ops. The newsgroup
+nails black are no longer professional requirements for ops. The
-provided several powerful and vile proverbs on the importance of
+newsgroup provided several powerful and vile proverbs on the importance
-backups, the foulest of which remain unrecorded in Heather Garvey’s <a
+of backups, the foulest of which remain unrecorded in Heather Garvey’s
+<a
 href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060423055444/http://home.xnet.com/~raven/Sysadmin/ASR.Quotes.html">extant
 quotes file</a>. Garvey’s document was, you may note, updated mere hours
 before Y2K day. This lends some credence to the theory that an eldritch