I have been on vacation in Cocoa Beach FL. I will be back on Feb 22nd and cannot wait to start working at Nokia.
Archive for February, 2010
If you have read anything on my site you know that I have the Palm Pre. I have had it for quite a while now and did an extensive review of the device. Through the short time that I have owned this device I have had quite a few problems. At first it was the Oreo Effect and the Volume Key sticking. These may seem like small problems to you but once you experience them they are not. When the volume key is stuck you cannot get the device to do anything because it constantly interrupts you to show that the volume is increasing or decreasing.
If you have been following my blog the last few days you know that I lost almost a years worth of data. I could have paid the web host $75 to recover the data but being that this is solely for my blog I opted not to do that. Rather I have recovered most (if not all) of my missing posts by using Google Cache. I did this by searching Google for my site and then the /YYYY/MM/ string and clicking the cache link in the search results. I do regret that all of my meta data such as comments/views etc for all of my posts have not been nor can they be recovered. I apologize but at-least the content is there so that when people click web links they are not confronted with a 404.
If you have seen my resume you will be saying (^*&%$%*&*(* and pulling out your hair asking why I would add yet another employer to my resume. I feel the same way! I have been trying to find the employer where I could be with for years and count on the stability. In 2008 I was working for Castle Communications and had been with them for over a year before getting the layoff e-mail. However starting Feb. 22nd 2010 I am glad to announce that I will be starting with Nokia after my trip to Florida next week. I am looking forward to working with the highly intelligent team that they have built and I am very excited to start with a company as large and stable as Nokia.
I am afraid I will not be allowed to really talk about what I am doing at work due to confidentiality agreements etc. however I will make posts updating you of things I have worked on once they have launched and are out of the reign of the agreements.
Last week at the request of my web host I started cleaning up my files in my directory. I was also trying to get rid of old stuff that was not in use any more. This led to me accidentally deleting my database for my blog. I have lost everything since March 2009. I guess this is a reason why you should make at-least weekly backups of your website.
I know the host could restore it for me but for them to restore my database to the prior day they were going to charge $75. While that is not a lot of money I am just not in a position to pay this price. I opted to lose the last year of posts (there were not that many anyway) and go on with life. Had this been more than my personal blog I would have opted to do the backup restore.
I am trying to pull my content from google cache and add it back into place however this does not include the comments left by users or user accounts that have been created since then.
