So stay tuned

RIP Steve. You will never be forgotten.

Stay hungry, stay foolish

From his Stanford Commencement Address in 2005. Not a bad motto to go by.

Ah the joys of backing up before doing a major update.

A few hours ago before I updated the site to wordpress 3.1 I made sure I backup the site just in case.

Well the just in case occurred. While updating the site to 3.1, it got stuck on updating. There was nothing I could do. The site was stuck on maintenance mode, and the back end administration stuff wasn’t accessible.

I just restored the back up and I was up and running again, with very minimal down time. The update to 3.1 also worked the second time which was surprising :).

So the moral of the story? Back up before you do anything drastic to any site. It minimises the down time dramatically.

Actually it a real pain in the ass. Just put your hand up if you have done the same thing.

Trapster sent out an email that their

The Trapster team has recently learned that our website has been the target of a hacking attempt, and it is possible that your email address and password were compromised,”.

“We have taken, and continue to take, preventative measures to avoid future incidents, but we are recommending that you change your Trapster password”

So the past couple days I’ve changed all the password so all the accounts now have different passwords. Would have been a headache keeping track of them if it wasn’t for 1password.

1password is a password tracker that is available on the mac, pc, iphone and ipad. Using dropbox as the storage location I can keep all my passwords synced across all my devices which is a real bonus.

So no more password hassles.