Yes. Sure. Computers often crap themselves, but problem often exists between keyboard and chair, i.e. the actual users. Around 10 minutes ago an account executive at work called as all the site customisations are gone. It turns out she explicitly clicked on the option to wipe out all the customisation and had made no back up. Now she needs to dig up old backups from October last year and try to fill in all the missing pieces.

S*** happens. Some are big s***, however, a few are bigger!

Yesterday afternoon when I assisted my 3 1/2 year old daughter to go to the wee, she asked some interesting questions while sitting on the toilet bowl.

Daughter: “Daddy, why don’t we have one toilet for daddy, one toilet for mummy, one toilet for baby (my other daughter who is 10 month old) and another toilet for me?!”

When I first went shopping around for VPS hosting back in early 2006, Linode was high on my list. There were only a few Linux VPS providers back then but I knew Linode has been in the VPS/VDS hosting business for years, way before the flood of HyperVM/OpenVZ hosts that I have observed in the recent months. However I did not go with them in the end (but went with Unixshell instead) because (1) they were a bit more expensive (2) I heard User Mode Linux (virtualisation used by Linode) was not as fast as Xen.

Fast forward 2 years.

A few days past Christmas, Thomas from Linode offered me a VPS account to review, and I emailed back asking for a Linode 360 in their Fremont California rack. 2 hours later my account has been set up, and I was already inside their Linode Platform Manager configuring up my VPS. So far so good.