Quote of the Moment

Nicola: ooh <4
Nicola: <3*
Seth: haha
Seth: is <4 a bigger heart than <3 ?
Nicola: Sure
Nicola: <10 -Nicola
(moar?)

It’s not happening again.

So after the fiasco earlier this month, I resolved that I'm keeping my own backups of everything. And since e-mail is what started the problems, e-mail is where I'm going to start too.

There are several good ways I could backup my e-mail. It'd be trivial to write scripts to tar up my mbox files every once in awhile and download them. Or I could rsync them to another account. However, I decided to go with a truly off-site backup, that was stored in a more usable format that I could search through immediately and restore piecewise if necessary. Aka GMail!

All I needed to do was setup a forwarder from my primary e-mail to my new backup GMail account. (I have a real GMail account for things that might spam me; this is a separate account.) Now I'm receiving mirrored copies of everything to that account. I don't need to do any spam prevention or anything, since I can search for whatever mail I need quickly and easily. And GMail has a much more lenient account dormancy policy— 9 months— than do most free mail providers.

All in all, I think it's going to be a fine solution… but let me know if I'm missing something ;) 

Itchy Scratchy

The redesign itch is definitely hitting for my site, with summer here and all. If ZetaBoards weren't eating all my time, I'd get onto it. I have some nice ideas, though, including:

  • Liquid layout (finally)
  • More emphasis on the site sections that get used a lot (blog, code) and less emphasis for the others (photos, about)
  • More graphic use
  • Some AJAX here-and-there (now that I sat down and learned the basics)
  • More "integration" with some of the things I play with on the internet (Ubuntu, Digg, ZetaBoards)

Now if I can only find the time…

An unfortunate series of events

So you'd never believe the events that led up to this… but I just deleted my entire website. I was able to save two things: the MySQL dbs, and ZetaBoards stuff. Pretty much everything else is toast. So it will be a bit sketchy around here while I rebuild.

:'( 

Rawk

I just won $25 from the PayPal "Mobile Mystery" sweepstakes. I never win anything!

Rawk. 

The results are in

March

7165 unique visitors that made a total of 13520 visits.

Total Bandwidth Used: 3.62 GB

April

8475 unique visitors, an increase of 18%, that made a total of 15849 visits, an increase of 17%.

Total Bandwidth Used: 2.22 GB

This represents a savings of almost 39%. This is due nearly completely to two things:

  1. Blocking hotlinking from my photos
  2. Optimizing my blog images (header + smilies)

Optimization is totally, totally worth it. Give it a try!

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