Website Update

Author: jawapro
Date: Wed 19/11/2008 06:16 PM




 

Here's a breif update for people who might be wondering.

Parts of my website still arn't working after the crash.

• Some of my CSS formatting isn't working properly.
• Emails arn't being sent (so I don't know when someone replies)
• My other domains all point here instead of their own sections
• Posting comments/blogs still kills the background
• And some other odds and ends.

Currently I'm in negotiations with Klutz and Turkeybrain about wether we want to set up our own Web Server. Until we decide that, I probably won't try too hard to fix this one. In the mean time - if there are any problems that you feel are worth telling me about - you can let me know. My email is my username at Gmail.com.



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Michael Crichton and Don S. Davis

Author: jawapro
Date: Wed 19/11/2008 06:09 PM




 

Sad news:

Michael Crichton has passed away. This happened a week or so ago, but my site was down so I couldn't report it.

For those who don't know - Michael Crichton has written some of my favorite books including Jurassic Park, Timeline, Prey, and Eaters of the Dead. These are all brilliant books.

Today I learnt that he wasn't the only person to bow out either. Don. S. Davis passed away as well. He's probably better known to you as General George Hammond (or Hammond of Texas) from StarGate.

Sad times indeed.

 



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The Klutz heads Northwards...

Author: jawapro
Date: Mon 17/11/2008 07:58 PM




 

Well - the uni year has been and gone - so Klutz is headed back north to Mount Isa for the Christmas break.

Time to catch up with his family - and hopefully get a job so he won't be totally broke when Uni starts again next year.

So his car (The Shopping Trolley) is living at my folks place, and his computer (Optimus) is living at mine.

Have a good trip mate!

Note: The photo is of Klutz attempting to play Portal.



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Alex and Adele

Author: jawapro
Date: Mon 17/11/2008 07:51 PM




 

On Saturday I went to an engagement party. I think it's probably the first one since Ben and Bec's - which is years ago.

Alex and Adele (the couple in the boat) are members of D.O.R.K.S. - which I have started attending pretty much every week.

I used to go to school with Adele and Tim (her brother). It's been great going to D.O.R.K.S. and getting to know people from Geneva (school) again.

And being Tasmainans - when it started raining, we went swimming. Well - not everyone - Adele and Alex were too busy doing engagement party stuff - but the rest of us D.O.R.K.S. headed to the pool. Very nice place to have an engagement party - the house had a decent little pool. The photo was taken after most people had given up - and the secret wall had been slide back in place to hide the pool again.

So thanks for the invite Alex and Adele - and all the best for the future!

 



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I'm Back!

Author: jawapro
Date: Thu 13/11/2008 09:25 PM

 

Finally – my website is back.

 

It’s amazing how often you want to blog when you can’t.

 

Anyway – brief recap.

 

Nearly 2 weeks ago – my website stopped responding. I wasn’t sure why – but eventually discovered that my host (www.worldgenhosting.net) had gone down too. That wasn’t a good sign.

 

I couldn’t email them – because their domains were down (including email) but thankfully I did have a direct email to a guy called Wes who happens to pretty much own WorldGen. Very glad I had that.

 

After much trying – I eventually managed to get some info out of Wes. Turns out they were upgrading their server, and it screwed up, so they lost everything. Very nasty. I shudder to think what their other customers would be saying – especially if they are running businesses from the websites.

 

Anyway – Wes was able to get my files back – which was a start. Unfourtuantly they only recovered a very small portion of my databases. This meant I’d lost all my Blog posts, comments, etc since my last backup (about a year ago). True – I should back it up more often – but I sort of figured that my host would have backups.

 

Even more annoying – SiteB was gone entirely. Most of you don’t know what Site B is yet but it’s a project that I’d been working on – and entered a LOT of data into. And it was gone!

 

But today Wes managed to work some magic – and my databases have returned.

 

There are still issues with my other websites – but hopefully they’ll be sorted as time goes on.

 

I’ll defiantly be backing up my databases more often.

 

In other news – I went to visit my sister for her birthday, Klutz can to visit me because he could, I went to see Death Race with some guys from DORKS (plus Klutz), my parents bought a new PC, and I finally got a copy of Red Alert 3.

 

RA3 is brilliant. As other people have said – with this game, who needs sleep?

 

Sadly – I do. Especially after staying up late with Klutz last night.

 

So that’ll do for now. Expect more regular posting to return in the coming days.

 

^ My site when it was half back.

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