I’m an idiot. A moron. I’m so mad at myself. Considering my previous backup problems, I’m surprised at myself for making the same mistake twice. Kaylee, earmuffs.
In transferring over to my newly formed LLC, I accidentally lost 16 months worth of data from RoadPetition.com. My last backup was from June of 2006. This means everyone’s comments, ratings, petitions and added locations are gone.
You see, when transferring ownership of the domain to my LLC, GoDaddy.com removes any hosting accounts tied to that domain. All files added and modified are gone. Most importantly, my database tables are gone. It wasn’t THAT much data and I should be able to get 10 times that amount, but it’s still disappointing.
Now, GoDaddy allows a backup tape to be recovered for $150. I’m considering letting it die out.
There’s a lot of hype going on about Halo 3 for the Xbox 360, and I, for one, will not be be a sucker. I don’t own an Xbox 360 and I certainly don’t plan on buying the console because of this game. I own a “regular” Xbox and I was unimpressed with Halo 1 and Halo 2. Especially with the annoying Halo 2 texture bug.
I found Halo 1 to be average with noticeable, lazy developer, “copy and paste” moments for the level design. Ho hum…
I never bought Halo 2 because of the bug and it just didn’t wow me. Zzzzz…
And people are actually buying the legendary version of Halo 3. There’s no way I’m spending $129 on a single game that includes a helmet!
Microsoft has even re-skinned their console into the Xbox 360 Halo 3 Special Edition. I have to admit, that green console looks cool
I was considering getting the console until I learned one strikingly surprising fact… Get ready, it’s a shocker…
It DOES NOT include the game Halo 3! Do you believe that? Isn’t that confusing? I can imagine many people missing that one little line that says “Halo 3 game is NOT included”. Considering the green version is $50 more expensive than the regular white version, you’d expect it to include the game. Boo Microsoft!
Back in May I offered up ideas for some previously available vanity license plates. Since then, these 9 have been stolen reserved by license plate thieves.
CDAWG
C DAWG
NULL
END
PURP
TONIC
NOOB
ZOOMZ
INMYWAY
So if you see any of these driving on the road, give them a quick honk. Especially if you see the one with the “NOOB” license plate. Just point and laugh, he’s such a n00b.
I don’t blame these thieves. They were good ideas for license plates. I know, because I thought of them
Here’s another one of my favorite and also available license plates:
Here’s an interesting story that recently happened to me. I call this story: It’s Not a Tumor Cyst.
I went to my physician for a regular checkup and I pointed out a small bump on my forehead near my hairline. The bump is underneath a mole and just recently I noticed it had gotten slightly larger. The doctor recommended that I go see a plastic surgeon to have it examined. Since I was covered for medical insurance, I went.
The plastic surgeon figured that my mole was covering up a small cyst filled with liquid that had built up. It’s like a zit or pimple but you certainly don’t just pop it. She wanted to remove it and because her next appointment canceled, she could do it right away and it would be super quick. Sounded good to me.
After the surgeon “opened me up”, she noticed that 3 blood vessels were all intersecting in the same spot and had all dilated. There was a lot of blood and the procedure went on longer than she or I had wanted. It didn’t help that I was drinking coffee before the visit and I had to go to the bathroom badly. During the procedure, I felt my classic cluster headache symptoms. I felt pain directly behind my left eye, my nose began to water and I started to sweat in the face. When I mentioned this to her, she applied pressure on the blood vessels and asked if I felt that same pain. Sure enough, I did.
This is potentially great news. This means that we might have found the cause for my headaches!!!
The surgeon is having a small piece tested in the lab, and I have to wear this lovely head gear for a few days. It hurts a little and I can’t bend over, raise my blood pressure, or have blood rush to that spot in my head otherwise it will hurt. Originally this was supposed to be a simple procedure so we weren’t in the operating room. She was only able to suture two of the blood vessels in the very small incision that she had made. She gave me 8 stitches and closed me up.
The plan right now is to let this heal and see if I receive any more headaches. I’m starting another “cluster headache season” right now so hopefully I don’t get any. Otherwise we can schedule a visit to the operating room where she can remove more of the unnecessary blood vessels. Luckily our bodies have more than we need.
By popular demand, I’ve posted some pictures of our beautiful Kaylee Ann Canoni. Enjoy!
I recently got a new High Definition video camera that takes some amazing quality video. Once I figure out how to post those, I’ll be sure to share. More pictures to come, so check back soon.
And unfortunately, “Kaylee” is not available as a vanity license plate
Today is 07/07/07 and there are world wide concerts happening on each continent (and one online in Zwinky) to promote saving the Earth through easy to do things anyone and everyone should be doing to help.
Some tips are:
Replace your light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs that not only last longer but save energy.
Reuse plastic shopping bags from the supermarket or better yet bring your own bags to the supermarket.
Unplug chargers from the wall socket when you’re not charging anything.
Well, I’ve got my own tip that I’m quite proud of. I’ve been doing this ever since I owned an apartment and started paying the the water bill. This tip is so easy for anyone to do that I hope you do it today.
I mod my toilets. How? I simply fill up a 2 or 3 liter soda bottle with water and place it in the water tank in the back. That way I save 2 or 3 liters of water for each and every flush. That adds up quick! I also lower the water bulb so that the tank doesn’t fill up as much. If you can fit a 3 liter bottle in there, go for it, I recommend the largest bottle you can fit.
You’ll find that missing 2 or 3 liters has little or no impact on the toilets flushing ability. So what are you waiting for? Save the world, mod your toilet today!
After many long days of hard work at my company, we’ve developed Zwinktopia. You may have seen the commercials on TV. They have been shown on Saturday Night Live, Wedding Crashers, and a ton of other places.
Here is the ad, enjoy:
In Zwinktopia, you can do all sorts of things. There are games to play, people to chat with, fun environments to explore, clothing stores in the mall, and a mess load of other cool features. It’s a really exciting product with a huge potential. It will be fun to continue to develop new Zwinky features.
As you know, I ordered a new car, the Mazda 3, back at the beginning of January. It will be arriving sometime in the middle of April and I am getting excited.
There’s another arrival on the way that gets me even more excited. With great pleasure, my wife Anna and I would like to announce the wonderful news that we are pregnant!
The baby is due on July 29th at 4pm. From the ultrasounds we already know that the baby will be a successful doctor and will likely receive a nomination for a Nobel prize
So Anna and I had a pretty crazy night last night. I was fighting off a stomach flu and we were both lying in bed around 12:30am when all of a sudden we heard this tremendous crash followed by a car alarm. A group of girls had driven across our neighbors lawn, hit their porch and smashed into the Anna’s mom’s car. Everyone is okay, both of their air bags deployed, one girl went to the hospital to have her knee checked out but it was a good sign to see her standing on it. We’re guessing that they were going about 40 mph or so.
They hit a wooden fence further south down the street and continued on. They just barely missed the tree on our neighbors lawn. There was a bottle of alcohol in the car and the cops told us that drugs were also involved. One girl was throwing up and another was yelling back at the cop. It wasn’t a pretty scene plus it was freezing outside.
I feel bad for Anna’s mom’s car but if it weren’t for it, then they would have surely crashed into our living room.
Please welcome Kaylee Ann Canoni to the world.
