thought-after

A post I wrote through my work blog, that outlines the basic, foundation rules for web development that help in any search engine optimisation efforts.

Well it's been a few days since my last update on the mo progress (mogress?), and a busy few days it has been.

A busy week last week at work was made more manic by our server crashing midway through Thursday. Not just a normal crash, but a non-recoverable hardware failure type crash. Panic ensued for a few hours while the extent of damage was assessed.

Friday morning brought us the conclusion that trying to rebuild the defunct server was a futile task, and so we hunted around for an immediate replacement. After sourcing a suitable replacement we set about the task of retrieving as much data as possible from the dead server. During this process we were also shocked to find out that our daily backups had failed every day for the last 5 months. Luckily the RAID array was intact, and we recovered all of the essential data. A lesson was very quickly learnt - verify backups!

The rest of the weekend was spent reinstalling all of the server software, mail archives, dev sites, etc, and Monday morning we were ready to reinstate everybody onto the network. Many thanks to Pete at for all the hours spent getting us back together.

Oh, and the mo is coming along nicely, but I'm really looking forward to the end of the month.

I came across a nifty little test today, How Many HTML Elements Can You Name in 5 Minutes?

I scored 52, and was pleased to find that (most of) the ones I missed are in the lesser/never used category.

See how you fare, just remember to be honest to yourself and do it all without any aids. Good luck!

A third of the way into Movember already. How time flies when you're having fun.

Came across great post on 15 Minute Lunch that shows a selection of 'fashion' from the 1977 JC Penney catalogue. Man that's some funny stuff. I wonder if they still stock it?

Inspired by the catalogue, I've stolen appropriated some curtains from the local retirement home, and am busy with chalk and pins marking out a wing collar suit. Victory is mine, mwah ha ha.

Not much to report today. It's been a really busy Friday, and the itching has returned.

I read somewhere that a man with a mo strokes it on average 460 times a day. I haven't counted, but I have caught myself stroking it! Oh dear . . .