Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Captain Labor
So I see this on the wall…
I keep looking at the top, second to the left position:
All I kept thinking was “there must be a little captain in her”.
Monday, February 25, 2008
A Gift for Jamie Lynn
I was walking on 42nd St and out of the corner of my eye I saw him holding this sign, and laughed as I continued. I stopped, took my headphones out, took a few dollars out, gave them to him and then asked if he’d mind if I took a picture. He had no problem with that, quickly posed for a couple, which then got him a little more attention, so hopefully he had a good few minutes after that.
I’m sure Jamie Lynn Spears will love whatever he picks out.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Double Hard Drive Failure
A couple of weeks ago the web server this site is on, along with a couple of other sites I have, like MMA on Tap, experienced a double hard drive failure. Not fun at all.
I didn’t have a recent external backup of the sites on it, as I was backing up locally, and obviously that was shot. The last backup I had was on the old server, which just so happened to be cracked the week before, so I wiped it out. Putting off making that new backup for a week was all the time that was needed before I was reminded why you never put something like that off. The hard drives failed and the server was down.
We tried to recover all files, but after days of swaps and attempts, everything just had to be recreated.
Luckily, data was not effected, so after setting up the site basics, the only thing that was needed was to fill in a few images here and there, and then continue on.
There are still some broken images on some of the sites. Some I’ll come across and upload, others are shot for good. Most have redesigns coming, so I’m focusing more on that anyway.
So, the lesson of the day, which has been the lesson of the day for many people, for many days: always make sure you have a recent backup of your work.
More HD!
Looks like Time Warner in Queens is about to add to the HD lineup. One cable box is showing new HD channels, while another isn’t. I can’t watch any of them yet, but hey, they look like they’ll be fun. CNN HD, MHD, History HD, A&E HD, Food Network HD, Lifetime Movies HD, HGTV HD, and finally two of my potential favorites: Versus/Golf HD and NHL Network HD. Very cool, hopefully they’ll pop on within a day or two.