netfirmsMarch 3, 2008
Last Saturday my web hosting provider
netfirms had an outage that lasted quite a while. Once their site (and mine) was back up, it became apparent that the database that I use as my content management system had been corrupted and lost about a year and a half of data. Great.
But wait, netfirms advertises on their website that all of there web service plans are protected by database backups. Fantastic!
Or so you would think. I have phoned them about 5 times, sent email, etc, and each time I'm told that they don't offer database restoration as a service and if they're able to help me it will take a long time because they don't have a "process" in place. Wow. You advertise database backups, but you don't have a "process" in place to restore those databases.
What a bunch of hoo-ey!
UPDATE: On May 1, netfirms finally restored the backup copy of my database. What a sigh of relief.
UPDATE: As of April 3, 2008, I have filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. It has been 1 month since the situation and Netfirms' has refused to correct their advertising to accurately reflect the services they provide. I've never submitted a complaint before, so this will be an interesting process.
who's among us?January 26, 2008
Every now and again I see something that someone has invented and I think, "That's pure geneous, why didn't I think of that myself"! Well today is one of those days. The website
maps.amung.us has a simple wizard you can use to add a map widget to your site that records where your vistors are from, and displays them on a map. Now granted, my website isn't a good candidate for this since I get very few hits, and they're likely all from Canada (or Turkey), but I'm still just tickled with their implementation of a great idea.
Update: I wonder who the guy from Palm Bay, Florida is? :)
Coolest car on the planet: 300 MPGDecember 22, 2007
Checkout this wonderful
Popular Mechanics video interview with the makers of the Aptera Super-MPG electric car.
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