Martin's World » News http://www.freakent.co.uk Martin's world of Gadgets, Internet and Technology Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:22:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Full Loss of Service and a New Start http://www.freakent.co.uk/archives/17 http://www.freakent.co.uk/archives/17#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:17:20 +0000 Site Administrator http://cgi.freakent.plus.com/wordpress/?p=2 PlusNetMy ISP, Plusnet, has let me and a good many other customers down badly. The server they provide for us to host dynamic web sites, and the server that hosts this blog, suffered a complete hard disk failure during routine maintenace and ALL data was lost. My whole Gadget Zone blog is lost. I suppose I should have kept a back up on my own PC, but that’s easy to say now.

Update
I just found an old back up of my blog text from the end of february. So it’s just the March and April posts which are missing now.

Since I needed to rebuild my site completely I thought this might be a good opportunity to see what other Blog software is available. Thanks to a bit of googling I found this review on the web, the clear winner was a piece of software called WordPress. I decided to give it a go and so far I’m quite impressed. WordPress looks like it can do a lot more than the version of MoveableType I was using before. It looks like I can actually host my whole web site in WordPress, not just this blog. So I think it’s time for a new start – new URL, new site, new everything.

]]> http://www.freakent.co.uk/archives/17/feed 1 D’oh! http://www.freakent.co.uk/archives/15 http://www.freakent.co.uk/archives/15#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:05:45 +0000 martin http://www.freakent.co.uk/wordpress/?p=15 Well I didn’t do very well. Only 9 posts then nothing since July last year. Complete pants. Last week some idiot hacked our ISP’s servers and I thought I’d lost this blog altogether. What’s that old saying, you only really appreciate something when you loose it. Well it’s true and I think it’s time to do something about it. Part of the problem before was that I was being just a bit too ambitious trying to write full reviews everytime. So although I am going to try post more often, I can’t guarantee that I’ll always go into as much detail. I also want to include more pictures. Over the last few moths I’ve been subscribed to the Engadget and Slashdot feeds. I definitely prefer Engadget and I think it’s simply because they include a picture with each post. I am going to have to workout if it’s possible to include images with MoveableType easily or perhaps change to a different Blogging system (I need a built-in spell checker!!!).

The other reason I want to put some life back into this blog is that I recently got some wicked new toys which are so great I just have to tell the world ! So stay tuned for my next few posts.

p.s. OK I’ll admit it, there’s another reason too – I found out Don has started blogging too !

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