Euphoric Realms

Week by week, I am inching slowly towards owning one of these beauties. Yes, call me a nerd or a Mac freak if you wish but I’ve been wanting a MacBook Pro ever since they announced it earlier this year. And what’s great about saving up rather than going out right now and buying it, is that there’s a good chance that by the time I have the $$$, a newer model would have been released (or at least announced). Hence, I don’t have to worry about the model I just bought being obsolete in a few weeks time. Hehehe.

No, not mine this time, but this photo is from another stock photography site I came across recently: Image*After. They have quite a nice collection of interesting images which are absolutely free, and what’s best is that you’re permitted to use the images commercially. Very nice indeed.

I apologise in advance for not posting as much as I used to. Don’t worry, this isn’t a hint that this site will be closing anytime soon, even if the post aren’t as frequent. I will always keep this one up and running. Hopefully things will be back to the way it was soon.

BTW, something’s wrong with my WordPress. Ever since I created a new database for the journal (see entry), the Post Preview feature no longer functions properly. Rather than getting a preview of my post, it just shows an error message. It’s a bit of a shame since I really like how they now use the journal’s theme to show the post preview. Anyone know what I can do about it?

It’s official. My iPod mini, which I had for almost two years, is dead. The internal batteries no longer wants to be charged, and no power means no music. I’m suprised that it actually lasted this long since I’ve heard that a lot of iPods only last for a little more than a year, and either have to be sent in for repairs or a new one have to be purchased.

So, where does this leave me? I guess I could buy the new iPod (aka iPod video) but that’s been out for quite a while now and knowing Apple, a new model is around the corner. There’s nothing worse than buying a piece of technology, only for a newer one to be released a week or two later. So I’m sure I can manage without an MP3 player for now, at least until the new generation iPods get released…whenever that is.

And that is to make a backup of every mySQL databases attached to my hosting account on a weekly basis, especially the one used for this journal. And look what happens…the journal’s database has been deleted for some odd reason (believe me, I am looking into this matter). Unfortunately the last backup I had was on New Year’s Eve so all the entries, sidenotes and comments made since then are now gone.

Well, not like I’ve made much anyways, as some of my regulars (although chances are, they’re no longer my regs) probably know.

Luckily all the other databases still exists. Now, to start backing up…

Oh and a big thank you to Ray-kun to letting me know about this problem. I honestly didn’t even know that my journal wasn’t working until she emailed me about it.