It’s been a while I write much in this blog. I haven’t place effort in maintaining this blog. Things are failing randomly, the template isn’t working too well.
Sometimes, in the train, I would have some ideas of a new template. Something that would re-energize this rather quiet blog. I never got about doing it; I have neither time nor the ability to concentrate sitting in front of the computer, making a new layout.
This blog has been through a lot. It’s been through a total of 7 migrations, of which the previous one is the most major. Each time I migrate, I lose a little part of the blog. I lost some data this time. Previously I lose some plug-ins I wrote myself and — tadah — I did not backup.
This time around, my loss is mainly on comments. I lost about 4 days worth of comments and 1 post. I did a weekly backup but that isn’t enough apparently.
The loss isn’t great. I can take it. The resolution took about half a day with three blogs to fix.
Looking at the brighter side, my new host is cheaper and easily to scale vertically. The server uses both nginx and Apache this time — with nginx serving static content such as images and Apache serving dynamic content. I have also made daily backups instead of weekly ones. May this blog continue to grow.
There has been a really bad moment where my database instance went corrupted. I lost some recent data, particularly comments in this blog. I tried all ways to fix the issue but can’t. The only way would be to input all the missing comments manually which would be quite a challenge.
I have moved to a better server. This time, I’m at Rackspace Cloud. It’s a carefully made decision and I hope this website will serve you better in time to come.
Wow Comcast is set to acquire NBC from General Electric. I wonder how this would change the media landscape.
Comcast Gets NBC From G.E., Reshaping the TV Industry
After nearly nine months of negotiations, Comcast, the nation’s largest cable operator, finally reached an agreement on Thursday to acquire NBC Universal from the General Electric Company.
The deal valued NBC Universal at about $30 billion.
The agreement will create a joint venture, with Comcast owning 51 percent and G.E. owning 49 percent. Comcast will contribute to the joint venture its stable of cable channels, which includes Versus, the Golf Channel and E Entertainment, worth about $7.25 billion, and will pay G.E. about $6.5 billion in cash, for a total of $13.75 billion. For now, the network will remain NBC Universal, but ultimately Comcast could decide to change the name. (Source: NYTimes)
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