This is the first post on our blog – again. We actually had several posts since we got it up and running a couple of weeks ago. But the database that stores all the posts crashed (curse you, MySQL). Since the site was only a couple of weeks old with a small handful of posts, I hadn’t yet bothered to setup backup processes (Murphy’s law, right?).

The only real news of the past few weeks is that Will turned two on Thursday (1/11). He got to eat his favorite foods including chocolate cake:

Will and the cake!

Synopses of the posts that were lost during the database crash follow:

  • Between Christmas and New Year’s we got our site, bluegosling.com, up and running: We bought the domain, setup all of the sites herein (which include a couple of blogs and a couple of place-holder web-sites for business), and published the first post. We are hosting the site on our own server here in the house. The down-side is that a real web-hosting service would provide things like back-up and recovery sources (doh!). But the up-side is that we have full control over everything, including the technology we use to build our site (like using WordPress to build the blog sites).
  • On New Year’s Eve we celebrated with a meal of roast leg of lamb and toasted with Lindeman’s Péche (a fantastic Belgian ale that we typically prefer over champagne or sparkling wine). On New Year’s Day, I made a batch of beer (a great way to ring in the new year).
  • This past Thursday was Will’s second birthday! Coincidentally, it was also my dad’s birthday (yes, Will and his grandfather have the same birthday – cool or what?!) Will got to eat his favorite things on his birthday – Pizza for lunch, Pasta for dinner, and, of course, chocolate cake! (see picture above).
  • We decided not to throw a party for Will this year – yet. We’re waiting until the first weekend in February so guests can give me a hard time, too (since I turn 30 on the 31st).

That’s a brief recap of what we had talked about prior to losing our database. From now on, I plan on backing up the database nightly – just in case we have any further troubles.