The german hosted blogging-service blogg.de accidentally deleted all comments from user weblogs last Friday. This worst case scenario occured when the administrators tried to fight down comment spam platform-wide. And due to corrupt backup files, all previously saved database dumps from mid-August to December 5th are useless. [#]

My 2 cents:

1. Shouldn’t large user-content-driven sites have local test-environments?
2. Shouldn’t important backups always be checksummed?

Of course this will never happen here, thanks to WordPress Database Backup.

It occured during the last week, when I someday said to myself:

Man, my PowerBook used to run faster than this.

Then yesterday, while starting the computer I realised that the lovely Apple chimes was missing on bootup, even though the volume was set at approximately 60 percent before (it is often disturbing when you are booting your Mac in an office, conference or what not after you cranked up the volume the day before).

To make a point: I finally had a look at the “About this Mac” dialog and was confronted with only half of the amount of RAM than my PowerBook has built in: 512mB instead of 1GB.

Read the full entry "Another Powerbook Ram-Slot story"