This is the personal blog of Ace Shattock - in no way does it represent the views of any organisation I am affiliated with. :)
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On Saturday morning, during a routine upgrade of software on my server, something went wrong, and we were left with a corrupt drive. Compounding this was the fact that I didn’t have a working backup available since 2009, 2007 for some of my sites. I spent most of Saturday trying to locate newer backups, but [...]
Having spent the past couple of months living off my redundancy package, I think it’s time to do something. Something other than going back to sitting in an office from 800-1700 that is. Offhand, I can think of one pretty good option, one that applies a skillset I have used on a hobby basis for [...]
Well, it’s been a pretty interesting and fun 5 years, but apparently there’s a surplus of people who do what I do, and I have gotten the redundancy. Time for a bit of a break, methinks.
It’s time once again for us to go on a Saturday shopping mission. Today’s destination: Westmere Butchers, where we hope to find some sausages. Given it’s a butcher, the likelyhood is high.
I recently discovered the wonders of Eggs Benedict, especially Hollandaise sauce. Having tasted these ones at a local cafe, I tried to make them myself.. with 100% success. Don’t think we’ll be buying them any more.
I got the itchy webmaster syndrome last night, and decided to rip down one of my under-performing vB sites and put it on a new domain. This was in part due to the fact I need the CMS/Blogs, and can’t afford the $225 to upgrade one of my existing 3.x licenses right now. The domain? [...]
Oh no, I’ve got to keep on Moving. We have shifted house, from the place we own in Massey, West Auckland… to Ponsonby (or thereabouts), pretty much smack-dab in Auckland CBD. This was due mainly to the fact that we both work in the city, and the drive to and from Massey was just too [...]
Give up. None of your posts will EVER become visible here. All comments are moderated, anything you spam here will result in your email address and IP being tagged as spam by WordPress, and you will be unable to post on any WP blogs. Seriously, just give up.
It was my Birthday on Monday. Having a B’day on a work day is somewhat crappy. There was a bit of a special meal thing happening, so that was kinda cool. Home time, and I got Civ 4, Halfbaked (movie) and a DEEP FRYER! Kickass! Friends came over with their deep fryer and we had [...]
Does your forum ‘fail to fly’? Has it reached the point where it is starting to slow down and you don’t (or can’t) upgrade your Hosting? Optimising your vBulletin can be an absolute Godsend. 1. Store CSS StyleSheets as Files By default, vBulletin will store the CSS of your pages as HTML within the head [...]
