The effort doesn't stop!

I lost a huge database that stored all of my personal note and annotations of the development on a few projects this morning. It was very disheartening and stole the day. I was very disappointed and frankly, angry at the whole situation. In the end it was my own fault.

One thing I try to do is "go with the flow." I know, I wrote about fighting the flow but sometimes it's best to just go with it and see where you end up.

Today, I not only rebuilt the database but put together a scheme that backs it up every 4 hours. So, this little situation created the 'fire' I needed to finish up on a disaster preparedness issue I was meaning to address for some time. I'm just glad it was my own information lost and not one of my clients.

Sure, I had to put some things off while I worked on this but in the end, it all came together and rewriting my priority list was also refreshing and helped me reevaluate the relevance of my list.

Well, it's Friday night and I'm still in the office at 7:00 pm, and even with house guests waiting for me. I feel guilty but I have things to do.

I've accomplished the backups of all my files from most of my domains and will finish up on an error logger that will help reveal deleted files that I needed. What? What I mean is, I'm removing all but the files 'I think' are needed on my domains. Inevitably, there will be images or files linked from internal and external pages that will be deleted. What I'm doing is building a script that will report to me all the files that were looked for but not found so I can either replace them or correct the reference. This is all part of what I call conscientious web mastering and is one of the things I take pride in.

That's my report. Sorry for the little rant this morning about Cingular. I actually wrote it last night and wanted to sleep on it before posting. I was in a very bad mood this morning and had no trouble posting it. LOL. The day turned out good overall.