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There was a transformer explosion and a resulting fire over the weekend at the Planet Data Center in Houston. It’s hard to believe that these kind of freak accidents can happen, but they do. All the best laid plans can easily be put asunder with a freak accident.

In this case, no data was lost, just internet connectivity was lost until power could be restored. The question pops, though, what would have happened if data had been lost? Do you have an offsite backup? Do you have a plan ready should data be lost? How often do you make backups?

I will discussing a few ways to backup web files in the next week or so.

I have a plugin that works great with WordPress and works with the newest versions as well as older versions. It does what it needs to do and does it right. There aren’t any annoying bugs in the code. It just works solid.

I often times wonder if I should just update it for no reason. See, people expect you to update your plugin from time to time. They want to you update it to fix bugs even if no bugs exist or so it seems. I am in a bit of a quandry here trying to decide what I should in fact do. How often to update it?

Imagine my surprise when I saw that Wordcamp Philippines has been scheduled for September 8, 2008. I have always been interested in attending a Wordcamp, but they always occur far away at inopportune times.

Ok, sure this one is far away, but as luck would have it. We will be in the Philippines during that time so it is beginning to look like a definite possibility that I might be able to attend WordCamp Philippines when it rolls around. I just to see the schedule when they get it up and see just what speakers they have lined up for the event. If they can get a big name blogger or developer, then I make sure our trip is scheduled around the camp.

After signing up for the wait list back when it was first released, I finally got my login for Google App Engine. It runs on Python and uses several different python frameworks that can be used to create applications.

There are two cool features that I like about it. You can use the Google Accounts for the sign in module. This means that you can create a very unique style of sign in procedure. Another feature that I like is that the hosting of the apps are free. You don’t have to pay for the CPU cycles or traffic.

Now I just need to spend some time developing apps.

Well, I like to make up sites that are very simple, but still can benefit from the power of dynamically generated content. I have the first version in testing right now. It still has a ways to go and some more features to add. Look for a first release next week.

The tentative name of it is GLM Environment. What exactly does it do? It’s a very simple lightweight content system that uses flat files.

The changes I need to make for full alpha status:

1) Separate the backend from the templates so that it’s easier to create different themes and templates.

2) Automatically keep track of the pages created in the system for display in the side bar.

3) Add security to the inputting of data