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Thai band Nyok rips it up at Chiang Mai's Heaven Beach You can only eat so much. Believe it or not we have interests other than food. Last March in Chiang Mai, if we weren't loving the local laab, supping...

We often talk about backing up our documents (documents, spreadsheets, databases, pictures, movies, songs) about we seldom spare a thought for crunch time – Restoring the file.

With documents, it’s easy. If your document has gone missing or is badly corrupted, you can simply restore from backup or from a copy on the ubiquitous USB Flash Drive. A no brainer, actually.

But what happens when a file is a database or a spreadsheet that keeps multiple tables and has a long running lifespan? It can be the case that you end up with one file having table A intact with table B out of date or missing records, another file, the reverse.

Brings to mind to ask the master of the backup job whether the backup is daily, weekly or monthly. And when the old backup media is recycled. Do you really have 30 single days of backup or just one backup, 30 days old?

If you have 30 single days of backup, how do you restore in such a way that you have 30 separate files (or systems) so that you can do a compare to see which ones are worth merging or keeping.

Think about it and make the contingency plans. Before it’s too late.

Ananda

Recently, we had a forum member enquire about whether Charles was still active on the Blog and the Forum. In this week’s Green Guide (15th July 2010), wily Charles must have lurked and read at the forum because Charles says, “I no longer post” here.

Charles has been very kind to the Web community – he funds this blog and the forum and he has often noted that the forum gives free advice and discussion to those who seek it. We have very valued voluntary administrators who write with a clarity, patience and persistence. For the blog, he has allowed myself, Stephen to blog from time to time and we try to do that when our time allows. I am sure Charles will write once in a while when he has time too.

To all our faithful, thanks for your support and attention. Keep the faith.

Ananda

At the moment in Hanoi, the Melon family are in the ascendancy. They travel mostly by bicycle as high speed accidents involving their members tend to be fatal. And messy. Melon trading - perfectly legal - is at its peak...

"What on earth am I doing, sitting here in eastern Turkey thinking about northern Thailand?" I thought to myself. Dave and I were tucking into a beautiful spread at Kristal, a friendly lokanta in the old section of Kars. I...

Prowling around not-so-familiar Hanoi neighbourhoods can surprise. When ostensibly alpha-males in Vietnam are sitting about on the streets of the capital, it's far from a surprise. But when they are sitting about staring up lovingly at caged birds, talking about...

As a supplement to our recent ZesterDaily article and slideshow on the fabulous Sunday market in Istanbul's Tarlabaşı Dave has posted some photographs of daily life in the 'hood on his photo blog. Wandering around and talking to some of...

There are Americans who will not eat green things. I know this from experience. Turks are not afraid of green things. On the contrary -- Turks embrace vegetables, they adore vegetables. In Turkey you're never far from a good salad....

The Spot: Not far from the 'horrorfare' Kim Ma St, where the road toll is on a giant scoreboard and there is traffic chaos all around. Juxtaposed in a quiet dead-end street (Van Phuc) behind the very secure Japanese Embassy...

it’s been quiet ’round here, i know. well, not so much literally: we’re currently a week into school holidays, so it’s round-the-clock chatter (and singing, and shrieking) from at least one of us. the other of us has been afflicted with the endless lurgy, and then somewhere in there, halfway through the course of yummy [...]