Peter's Blog

I couldn't resist the site5 deal for a hosting account with 750g of space for $7.50 a month over two years PLUS (or rather minus) a 13% Halloween discount. That's an awesome amount of backup space, enough to back up the family photo album of 8g 93 times AND the hosting account service includes my backups being backed up.

I bought a new domain name especially to associate with the new account but I don't feel like sharing it. I'm not sure what actual sites I want to host on it, as I say I got it primarily to back everything else up and I'll be spending the next few days writing rsync scripts to do rotating backups and waiting for 8g of family photos to upload at about 400kbps.

Speaking of broadband, the worst possible thing happened yesterday evening while I was waiting for access to the new site5 account: my broadband died. It was down all evening. First time this has happened in a year since I got it. Wife was busy, had 11 month old baby to take care of, what to do? Watched three episodes of Heroes on PVR. Really good if sometimes a bit talky. Unfortunately I was left at episode nine, Hiro (hero geddit?) was six months in the past trying to stop a rather sweet waitress losing the top of her head. Does he manage it? Dunno, I haven't recorded any more episodes and BBC are now a few months down the line. How to fill the gap? Please, NO SPOILERS. I've already spotted that the waitress happened to be learning japanese six months before she had the bad hair day...

To my tremendous relief the broadband was back up this morning. After a year I'm still with pipex, despite my initial hostility it has been so reliable (so far) that I'd rather let it be. Other WoW players moan about disconnections but these rarely effect me (sometimes at about 9am on Saturday mornings but not for months now). Of course I will be reviewing this if I get any more evenings offline ESPECIALLY now I've savoured the cream of my PVR backlog.