Comments on: On bad things happening to good people http://www.nicholasgoodman.com/bt/blog/2006/11/17/on-bad-things-happening-to-good-people/ Musings on reporting, OLAP, ETL, open source Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:58:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: ngoodman http://www.nicholasgoodman.com/bt/blog/2006/11/17/on-bad-things-happening-to-good-people/#comment-14395 ngoodman Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:59:55 +0000 http://www.nicholasgoodman.com/bt/blog/2006/11/17/on-bad-things-happening-to-good-people/#comment-14395 Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Yes, Mark was able to recover about 75 of his more popular entries from googles cache. Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

Yes, Mark was able to recover about 75 of his more popular entries from googles cache.

]]> By: Diego Carballo http://www.nicholasgoodman.com/bt/blog/2006/11/17/on-bad-things-happening-to-good-people/#comment-14380 Diego Carballo Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:51:52 +0000 http://www.nicholasgoodman.com/bt/blog/2006/11/17/on-bad-things-happening-to-good-people/#comment-14380 Have you tried Google cache's to get some lost posts? Just an idea, hope this helps. Regards Diego Have you tried Google cache’s to get some lost posts?

Just an idea, hope this helps.

Regards
Diego

]]> By: Jez Nicholson http://www.nicholasgoodman.com/bt/blog/2006/11/17/on-bad-things-happening-to-good-people/#comment-14372 Jez Nicholson Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:12:41 +0000 http://www.nicholasgoodman.com/bt/blog/2006/11/17/on-bad-things-happening-to-good-people/#comment-14372 The Wayback Machine may help too.... http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.biblogs.com Mark's predicament is a good example of how much we all now trust Application Service Providers on the web. A few years ago it was nigh on impossible to convince someone to use a piece of software that wasn't hosted on their own servers, connected to their own database, and backed up by their own technicians. ASPs should actively promote data protection or confidence will drop again and the market for webapps will be killed off. The Wayback Machine may help too…. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.biblogs.com

Mark’s predicament is a good example of how much we all now trust Application Service Providers on the web. A few years ago it was nigh on impossible to convince someone to use a piece of software that wasn’t hosted on their own servers, connected to their own database, and backed up by their own technicians. ASPs should actively promote data protection or confidence will drop again and the market for webapps will be killed off.

]]> By: jc http://www.nicholasgoodman.com/bt/blog/2006/11/17/on-bad-things-happening-to-good-people/#comment-14237 jc Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:36:47 +0000 http://www.nicholasgoodman.com/bt/blog/2006/11/17/on-bad-things-happening-to-good-people/#comment-14237 Mark, Please do a google yourself, as web pages remain on Google cache. You may recover some from this method. - jc Mark,
Please do a google yourself, as web pages remain on Google cache. You may recover some from this method.
- jc

]]> By: Mark Rittman http://www.nicholasgoodman.com/bt/blog/2006/11/17/on-bad-things-happening-to-good-people/#comment-13929 Mark Rittman Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:00:04 +0000 http://www.nicholasgoodman.com/bt/blog/2006/11/17/on-bad-things-happening-to-good-people/#comment-13929 Nick, thanks for the kind words. Don't worry - I am furious, bitter and livid, but the hosting company have just presented it as a fait accompli. Life's too short to get worked up about things you can't change, unfortunately. Nick, thanks for the kind words. Don’t worry - I am furious, bitter and livid, but the hosting company have just presented it as a fait accompli. Life’s too short to get worked up about things you can’t change, unfortunately.

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