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Looking for a backup strategy

Published on 10 June, 2006 in online and thoughts. 0 Comments

Backup is one of those thing that is constantly on my mind and yet I have not fully implement a good enough strategy.

Alot of my information are online. My email is with GMail. I have a number of websites, both personal and business, spread across different servers. These websites contain infomation in both files and databases
There are backup of these data but none of them are automated or regular.

At the same time I have data spread across my notebook, protable harddisks and CDs. In my office I have people with different information stored in different PCs.

Without spending too much money what are some good strategies?

  • Online storage.
    I explored them but found none to be suitable. Mozy looks to be the closest to what I want but I am not happy with its refusal to allow me to remove it from the taskbar.
  • Backup server
    I toyed with the idea of setting up a linux box, hook up a large harddisk and write some scripts to pull data into the server.
    What I need to do is to break down the task into biteable chunk.

WordPress shortcuts I did not know.

Published on 9 June, 2006 in tips to share and wordpress. 0 Comments

Today I took a little time to explore around WordPress and found 2 little links so useful that I could not imagine how much time I had wasted without them!

Respective, go to the Add Link and Write Post page in the admin. Go right to the bottom of the page. You will see 2 links like the following.

link this press it

The instructions are very clear so I will just summerise,

  • click+drag the links to the bookmarks
  • go to a page that you want to link ot blog about
  • click on the booked link
  • presto!

Try it!

This experience just goes to show that we have to take some time to sharpen our saw and not keep sawing with a blunt saw.

My first donation on the way

Published on 8 June, 2006 in List of, my ideas and online. 7 Comments

Keeping with my promise. I’m making donations to opensource projects each time I get a cheque for Adsense.

This will mark the first of many to come hopefully.

List of projects in consideration for donation: (not in any order or preference)

Sites using AdAdvantage

Published on 7 June, 2006 in 59ideas, adadvantage, blogging and wordpress. 0 Comments

What can be more pleasing to a theme developer than people using it?

I came across a few sites using my K2 3 column scheme.

You are using the AdAdvantage K2 scheme. Leave a note!

Relaunching Openology

Published on 7 June, 2006 in beta and my ideas. 0 Comments

Openology.Org

Openology is an opensource project that I started quite a while back. The idea was to develop a PHP framework that could quickly build applications.

That was then.

It never took off. There were many frameworks and many more came online. Recent frameworks quickly borrowed ideas from the wildly popular Ruby-on-Rails.

The project was in hiatus for many months and I’m now picking it up again. I’m also throwing some of my offline business resource at it, now that I can affort.

After some rethinking, I’m transforming it from being a framework to something I can use immediately. The goal is to make Openology a backend platform where other applications can be build or integrated.

All these do sound pretty vague at the moment but I plan to luminate the purpose as the project proceed.

In the current incarnation, Openology allows you to install WordPress, FUD Forum and Wikka Wiki. Nothing fancy and no integration yet.

I invite you to take a look.

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