Site news....

Hi all,

I know you've all been waiting for it (yeah, right!) - I've finally fixed the photo album. Couldn't sleep last night, so it was the perfect opportunity. So feel free to browse for the latest lot of photos, I've added 4 new albums.

The weather page now updates when I'm at the PC only, so don't bother checking it - it was showing errors more often than not due to the wireless points dropping out, so no point maintaining it.

The only thing remaining is to backup the site before my host screw it up again and fix the video page...that all of you probably haven't heard about.

Anyway, enjoy the photos and take care.

Happy 2009....bye bye 2008

Well, 2009. Yikes, were all getting older! (mind blowing insight I know!)

Anyway, hi anyone,

Here's what's happened since Xmas. We started by taking Aimee to the beach. It was our 5th wedding anniversary (27/12), so we went for an early breakfast at Neilson Park cafe, then took Aimee for a swim. Aimee is funny girl, wants to build sandcastles but doesn't want the sand on her hands - big dilemma for a 3yr old. :)

For New Years eve, Rose's office was opened up for the 9pm (kids) fireworks, so we ventured out - and surprisingly, we all enjoyed it. Back home by 10.15. Rose and I stayed up to watch the midnight fireworks, initially on TV. But outside around the corner was a great view, so we took turns to go watch the fireworks. They have several firework barges up and down Sydney harbour, so from our locale, we could see three barges and the top of the bridge - not bad at all. There was also a huge crowd around - surprising to see how many people were there by the bay walk and at the parks. Next year we'll just stay home to see the fireworks :) (photo: NYE sunset from Rose's work)

On New Years day, we went to the farm for 4 days. Hot up there, but we had a restful time. Aimee's cousin Kurtis was there, so she had a playmate. Check out the bum crack photo to the right.

My webhosting mob have moved servers again, so have been sorting out some issues - the photo album (gallery2) is broken, so in the mean time, have posted a temporary album with link with the photos from these 'adventures'. Enjoy

Hope you all have a great year

Webhost problems...

Hi anyone,

Have recently been having issues with my webhost.

Around the 29/8 I noticed my site was not found... Contacting support, I was told to change my DNS entry to new name servers. This resolved the missing site issue, but created a new issue, whereby the data on goodridges.com and Rochelle's site radac.net was as at 28/3/2008 - 5months old.

After exchanging emails with support, it turned out that my base account was moved to a different server on the 28/3 and as I was not advised to update the name server entries, all updates were to the old server. Finally around the 29/8 they switched the old server off.

Moral of the story I guess is not to rely on webhost backups. My webhost keeps them for only 3-5 days, and the fact that it took over a week of exchanging emails to convince support I had nothing to do with date regression (they want $75 to restore the site) and that they needed to investigate meant no chance of restoring the data (they looked but couldn't find it). So, I lost all updates since the 28/3.

Luckily, blogger keeps my posts, and I had backups of php changes I'd made. I also need to upload phot album's added since 28/3.

Anyway I'm a little annoyed and will from now start my own offsite backups of webhost data - just have to work out how :)