Dan Rooke’s Blog

If you weren’t aware, the Buncefield fuel depot explosion knocked out several servers at Northgate Information Solutions’ data centre located close to the site of the blast. The servers affected included those hosting The Labour Party’s and Richer Sounds‘ web sites.

I thought it was a little odd that all backup for these two servers remained on site, and hence unobtainable/possibly destroyed. This has caused problems for both sites getting back on their feet. However, at the time of writing, Richer Sounds’ site is now back up whereas The Labour Party’s is still just a temporary page. A quote from The Register sums things up nicely here:

‘[This] provides us with some kind of lesson in disasterrecovery. If there’s a terrorist attack, nuclear war, avian flupandemic or whatever, who are you going to turn to to sort things out,the people running the country or the hi fi box shifters?’

I have posted a link to my Amazon wishlist over on the right. This may help you with those last minute present ideas for me! Of course you are not restricted to the items on the list, they are just a few DVDs and CDs I would like. The list is sorted by priority, aka how much I want them.

Apologies if this seems a little cheeky, it’s not meant to be. It’s just there to give some ideas and to help remind me what I’m after.