Back on my normal server

June 19th, 2009

I’m back on my normal server again. I had complete data loss and my backups weren’t as thorough as they should have been so I had to rebuild my configuration.

Moral of this story: if in doubt, back it up.

Recovering from scratch

June 9th, 2009

My web server was one of the 4,000 or so servers affected by the Vaserv HyperVM hack that started Sunday (June 7th), and my site has been down since then. I had a complete backup of all my web content that was made a couple hours before the outage started, so I’ve been able to restore pretty much everything. Many others were not so lucky… just another reason to make sure you have a backup system in place.

My site may be slow until my regular server comes back online, because the backup host I’m using isn’t very fast.

New program: Copy File Path

May 26th, 2009

Have you ever had to collect links to files all over your hard drive or a company network? Copy File Path sits in your ‘Send To’ menu waiting to help by copying the full path of a file into your Windows clipboard, ready to paste into a spreadsheet or document. Visit http://www.njcrawford.com/copy-file-path/ to download and try it out.

A new look for njcrawford.com

May 20th, 2009

Now sporting Wordpress for the home page. Woohoo!

Next step: make the rest of the site look nice too.