Dreamhost Never Promised You A Rose Garden (or, um, backups)

January 6, 2009

(Below is an email I just received from Dreamhost)

Unfortunately we were unable to process your domain restore for [domain name redacted] … we seemed to be able to find a backup but for some reason couldn’t restore it within four hours! If you want, you can reply to this email and we’ll try and see if there’s anything we can still do.

We are very sorry about this! Howevvvvver… we actually make no guarantees about availability of backups, and highly recommend you always keep your own copies of all important data. Please follow the link below for instructions with this:

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Backup_Website_Manually

Thanks,
The Unhappy Dreamhost Domain Restore Robot!

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Cable Modem HOWTO for NeXTSTEP

December 24, 2008

Almost no one will care about this except me.

And you, if you are actually trying to network a NeXTSTEP computer.

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Triplecolors for Web Design

December 19, 2008

If you are seeing this in your sidebar and don’t know why:

  1. Don’t freak out (although you may want to open this in a new page to make reading easier.

  2. Scroll down to the bottom of the table for a new link for an un-adorned plain copy.

So… yeah, I wrote a bunch of sidebars a few years ago, but have largely forgotten about them. They were for when I was writing a lot of web pages by hand (ah, the late ’90s).

Apparently they are still in use. I wanted to put it into WordPress but keep the same URL.

So here’s the table:

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Web Colors Sidebars

December 19, 2008

If you are seeing this in your sidebar and don’t know why:

  1. Don’t freak out (although you may want to open this in a new page to make reading easier.

  2. Scroll down to the bottom of the table for a new link for an un-adorned plain copy.

So… yeah, I wrote a bunch of sidebars a few years ago, but have largely forgotten about them. They were for when I was writing a lot of web pages by hand (ah, the late ’90s).

Apparently they are still in use. I wanted to put it into WordPress but keep the same URL.

So here’s the table:

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TextExpander Snippets for Books of the Bible

December 18, 2008

I wrote this up because I am a terrible speller when it comes to books of the Bible.

I tried to included as many as possible, as many as I could think of, and also adapted from an ‘acceptable abbreviations’ list at Logos.com

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Gimme a D

December 18, 2008

Ethan loves to play this game where he gives us the first letter or sound of something he wants us to guess.

This was cute and fun, the first 3,837 times.

Now it gets a bit tedious.

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Create a Shortcut to get All Unread messages in Gmail

December 17, 2008

Summary: Want a quick way to access all your Unread messages in Gmail? The necessary parts are already there, just hidden away. Some assembly required. No batteries necessary. [Read On…]

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Bacon

December 15, 2008

Before we get to the bacon, a few notes:

Yes, that’s a regular 12” ruler.

Yes, it’s all bacon.

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Windows Migration Assistant in 5 Simple Steps

December 11, 2008

5 Simple Steps

  1. Take the hard drive out of your old computer.
  2. Buy an external hard drive case.
  3. Put the drive from your old drive into the case.
  4. Buy a new computer.
  5. Attach drive to new computer.

Boom. You’re done.

Repeat every 3-4 years.

Any Questions? If so, see below. [Read On…]

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You Do Realize There Is No War On Christmas, Right?

December 9, 2008

(Updated: 2008-12-17)

There are wars, and there are “wars”.

The “war” on Christmas is not a war, and if there was a “war”, most of the people up in arms about it would be fighting on the wrong side.

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