Backup Your PC to the Internet

Backing up is a dull but essential chore. Authors have lost the entire manuscript of their latest book because they didn't bother/know-how-to/know-they-needed-to backup. Even seasoned programmers have known disaster either because they didn't have a recent enough backup or worse found they had been a glitch in the backup process that they hadn't noticed. Backups should be automatic and not rely on human intervention. This is one of the many advantages of Internet backup services, no requirement to insert a fresh tape/DVD, automatic backups can be programmed daily at midnight, the backups are always off premises.
Amazon provides the A3 backup service, but a techie friend recommended me the Mozy.com 2GB Totally Free Online Backup by Mozy. This is free but I will be upgrading to their paid service soon so I get even more space and extra features, by the way if you sign up to their Paid Service you can use the code "June" to get a 10% discount.

Solve your backup problems forever with Mozy.com and relieve yourself of one more chore and the guilt feeling when once again you don'y get round to it.

Creosote: The Surprising Most Important Communications Invention

The Victorian Forerunner of the Internet was the Telegraph. The Telegraph curiously was "digital" as the information sent was encoded, the later analog telephone was in this sense a step backwards. Anyway the problem for the development of the telegraph was that the wooden telegraph poles rotted or were eaten by insects. It was the invention of creosote which allowed effective protection of these poles allowing Telegraph to spread across the USA and become a commercial success. The rest is history.

Wonderful WordPress

Somehow I've only recently realised how marvellous WordPress is. I am now using WordPress not just as a Blog but as a rapid website generator with CMS. I've tried so many of the Website CMS systems and found then too complicated/non-intuitive (and I'm a techie).

The toughest part of creating a mini-Wordpress website is choosing from the hundreds of free templates.

Here are two of my first attempts:-

• oswaldcouldrey.co.uk
  
• farmparking.co.uk
  

Top Quality Free Web Hosting
The Internet constantly surprises me; free web hosting used mean that you had to display their adverts and any technical extra such as database was charged for. Well now 000webhost.com where 000 means $0.00 dollars offer a very high specification free web hosting with PHP/MySQL and Cpanel and Fantastico, what's more it's not just free for the first year but forever, don't believe me well click below to learn more!

ASP / PHP Cross Reference

The following page allows you to quickly convert ASP to PHP or vice-versa by showing at a glance the different syntax for say comments, concatenation etc

http://www.design215.com/toolbox/asp.php