Gotta get me more pictures on this blog!

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Regular visitors to this blog will notice that there are more and more pictures. That’s right! In an effort to brighten up the pages, I will be including more graphics and picture elements in the future. That should help to brighten the pages.

In addition, the blog is due for a facelift at some opportune time in the near future, as well as conversion to WP 2.1.12. Unfortunately, the conversion won’t be straightforward as I’ve lots of little bits of code to the mix, and I didn’t keep records of what I added and when. Good examples are javascripts in the header, text links in the top, etc., etc..

So for those of you with the same kind of problems, keep accurate records before you back up of what you changed and why. Then back up your files on the server as well as your database.

Also, you can move the files to another location, and copy the database to a new database, so you have a working copy that you can compare with the new edition to check you transferred everything. Moreover, if there is a disaster, then you can simple redirect to the new location until things are fixed!

Voila! My tips on backing up.

SanDisk’s New 32-GB Flash Drive – Liberation for the Blogger?

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I recently blogged about virtualization on a USB flash drive. Little did I realize that a portable flash drive of such dimensions as SanDisk’s new Flash Drive Hard Drive replacement would become available so soon and at a price that is almost affordable.

While the dimensions aren’t huge by hard disk standards, running an OS in such a space is certainly very feasible. I’m sitting here thinking of a Damn Small Linux running on a laptop without a CD. Now on that environment, you’ve cut out two large sources of power drain. I wonder how long you could get out of the batteries, then. Not to mention, the weight and physical size of the laptop could be much thinner, I think. Or perhaps an extra battery could replace the CD-Rom/DVD burner!

I know that there are people designing such systems even as we speak, but I think for the most part, they’d have to be homegrown efforts for the time being. Still, it would be awesome, if you could get your hands on such a machine or design one yourself. Could it be the perfect blogger’s tool?!

Rich Today, Poor Tomorrow by Robert Kiyosaki

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Robert Kiyosaki, Why the Rich Get Richer

I would like to draw your attention to a great article by Robert Kiyosaki in which he will “… explain why deflation will severely punish the upper middle class. These are the people who think they’re rich because their houses and stocks have gone up in value — that is, because of inflation.”

Now I’m no economist, so I don’t know if his article is soundly based. But as a common sense article, I thought it worth reading and enjoyed. Perhaps someone could explain why it is not sound! Comment away!