Nerdy Dork

You’ve all heard the horror stories. You go to boot up you computer, nothing happens… perhaps you hear a click… click… click…

This actually happened to me a couple years ago. Luckily my hard drive started working again just long enough for me to get a back-up before replacing it.

I recently heard of an acquaintance that had this happen to them. It reminded me of how vulnerable I am. I have no back-up plan!

I do however have a plan now. I’m signing up for mozy. Yeah, I’ve heard about about the great claims with Carbonite from all the radio shows (Rush, Dr. Laura, etc. etc.). We’ve even used Carbonite at work. I think its great, but when I did a search to see what other players are out there, I found mozy.

Why mozy?

I recognized their name. There are here it Utah. A couple years ago they sponsored a coding competition with a cash prize of $10,000. It was basically a recruiting effort to expose some of the best local talent.

But it is not just name recognition alone. I’ve done my homework and they are the real deal. Check out these videos:

So what are you waiting for? Get backing up! You’ll thank yourself someday. It’s only $4.95 for unlimited storage. If you can’t afford it, start with the free plan and back up your most important 2 GB (like your My Documents folder)

Mozy Online Backup. 2GB Free or $4.95/mo for Unlimited Backup. It’s simple, automatic and secure!

Oh, and one tip… If you are going to sign up for unlimited and decide to pay for a 1 year or 2 year plan, save 10% by entering “AUGUST” in the promo code (good until the end of August obviously!).

(This post is mostly for my own reference)

James Bennett mentions a Django style guide in his book Practical Django Projects. I couldn’t find reference to it, but the following is the order of things when it comes to models:

1. Any constants and/or lists of choices
2. The full list of fields
3. The Meta class if present
4. The Admin class if present
5. The __unicode__() method
6. The save() method, if its being overridden
7. The get_absolute_url() method, if present
8. Any additional custom methods

Wow, this really had me laughing out loud! Maybe because I just got a hair cut from another weirdo on Saturday. I really wish I could find a normal person that I could go to and get a haircut on a regular basis. Imagine captain Jack Sparrow as an old lady with pig tails cutting your hair… yeah, that was my Saturday morning.

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I love cool tools! I wanted to start a new blog. So I registered domain, set up an account on my cPanel VPS, used Fantastico to create a WordPress blog, found a theme and modified some settings. Viola! - a new blog in less than an hour. Now I just have to wait for 1&1 to update the DNS servers. I think if I registered the domain at Godaddy I really could have the site live and ready to go in under an hour. (I use 1&1 simply because they are cheaper.)

Oh, and by the way. I made this post using ScribeFire, which is also one cool tool!

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