Although I did post an article last year for Ada Lovelace Day I’ve never mentioned Backup Awareness Day.
Had I worried about frequent “off site” backups for this blog I would have been able to recover all the posts I lost last year. My only compensation is that as the blog has been more or less inactive these past 18 months or so I’ve not lost too much. Can you imagine the pain of losing years of articles, documents, files, images, music or films?
Ouch! That hurts doesn’t it! So do something about it now while you can.
What do I do? Well my Macs are backed up with Time Machine constantly and through an external service (Mozy). I make off site backups of my websites every month and my Social Websites are backed-up regularly through Backupify.
It’s not a perfect system but at least I can honestly say that I am aware of the problem.
It’s not sufficient to think just one day a year however, so I think we need to accelerate the movement. Perhaps a #backupawarenessday Twitter tag (something shorter would be better).
What do you think?
I believe today is the first anniversary of Ada Lovelace day and in any case this is the second year in a row that I’m participating.
Last year I posted an article about Stephanie Booth but I think it was lost when my blog crashed last year.
You can head over to Fast Company for an excellent article on women and technology which will enable you to discover the importance of women in technology.
As for me although I’ve known about this day for many months and have been reminded many times of the imminence of the approaching date I have been caught unawares and unprepared for this anniversary.
I can’t let the opportunity pass unnoticed however so Ada please accept my apologies for not writing more. I promise I’ll do a better job next year!
Well for once it isn’t this blog!
I’ve been busy of late and the results are starting to show. I’m now a Certified Hynotherapist (NGH) and will be opening a practice part time here in Geneva, probably in early summer. Before that however I will be undergoing training to become a massage therapist. I think it’s important to be able to offer different sorts of therapies and besides Hypnotherapy and Massages I plan on becoming a Reiki Master and am looking at other Energy therapies.
In the meantime I am setting up a new website for these activities and am very busy, behind the scenes, writing content.
You can follow the progress here
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Due to an unresolved problem with WP I had to start over again on this blog.
I started blogging over five years ago but now with Facebook and Twitter, Posterous, Tumblr and others, blogging has evolved and personal blogging has, in my opinion, less relevance.
I managed to slavage most of my posts up until early last year so there is a hole in my blogging history of over a year. Unfortunately I was unable to access my blog to recover this period but luckily the blog was often very quiet which compensates.
I have decided to more or less cease generalist blogging because you can catch up with this on Twitter (justgraham) or look for me on Facebook (link will follow). Rather I will continue here with one of my passions and that is cooking.
Next year I will have been married for thirty years but it was only less than a year ago that I decided to assume all the cookery at home. My wife is an excellent cook but we both work full time. She has cooked for all this time and early on this year I decided it was time for me to step up to the plate and take over the role. I’m still having a ball and soon it will be a year.
I want to relate how it is going for me and show you what I am cooking, my successes and failures and any tips I might be able to give you.
I might stray onto other subjects from time to time but I’ll let you judge if this is a good thing or not!
Welcome back if you haven’t read me for a while!
This is the salad I had last week at The Green Spot here in Geneva.
If you are wondering what’s going on here is an update.
I recently noticed that my blog was spitting error messages so I tried to fix it. I couldn’t get into the admin interface whatever I tried so I backed everything up using the tools my hosting service provided. I deleted the installation, reinstalled, then got my provider to hook it up to the old database and copied back all the content.
The end result was identical and I had gone full circle.
I’ll be honest here and say that the heyday of my blog was long last gone and I hadn’t done much with it over the past year apart from posting from time to time to say I hadn’t posted lately. I wasn’t really getting much traffic and this was understandable. I’m active on Facebook and participate on Twitter and Friendfeed so didn’t really feel the need to post here a lot.
This should be the place where I post longer articles or put stuff that doesn’t belong on FB, Friendfeed or Twitter. I’m not really sure what that might be and notice that even the prolific bloggers I know tend to write less these days too so I’m not alone.
So now you know the story please come back and see how I’m doing real soon now!
Following on from my last few posts I’m trying to be a little more pro-active.
If you want to participate in the hunt for my friend Robert I have made a badge that you could host to help spread the word. I’ll be reporting regularly here to give you any news I receive.
Here is the badge:
and here is the code:
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