If anything can go wrong, it will…

Well you may already know the Murphy Law “If anything can go wrong, it will”, well believe me: it’s true.

The other day I was haply working when suddenly my HD starts making this annoying noises and beeps, I restarted my computer and puff… It was all gone! :( The problem is that the most recent backups that I have are almost 3 months old - I know, I know…

I’ve sent the HD to a specialized data recovery clinic but it ain’t going to be cheap - between 150€ and 2000€ or more - and it will probably take a long time before I get most (not all) of my work back. Anyway, I’ve started working on a form validation code for PHP but I’m having some problems specially with automatic error phrases generation and multi-languages.

Among other stuff I’m also working on a PDO (it will become the default database driver in PHP 6.0) database wrapper with some very efficient caching algorithm that I and my friend Alexandre Rodrigues have been working on. I also developed a very simple and small proof of concept code in PHP that can bring down most of the shared hosting web servers in a amazingly fast speed.

I will publish some code as I go along, also, if you don’t have a backup utility I recommend you get SyncBack Freeware now.

BTW: I had more than 1.000 unique visitors in a day, that’s a great thing for this blog, thank you all! ;)

2 Responses to “If anything can go wrong, it will…”


  1. 1 Diogo Stuart

    And all that happened when you were going to do some backups into a brand new HD I gave you the day before… its some kind of destiny torture or something.

    Fu***** Murphy #%”#% if I find you… you’ll see what can go wrong…

  2. 2 cooliojones

    Sorry about that! The same thing happened to me a couple of months ago. I left my computer on when I left, and when I came back I could move the mouse, but that’s all. Then I shut it down, brought it back up and it died. Luckily it was still under warranty, but I lost a lot of irreplaceable info. I guess I didn’t need it anyway!

    What is this plugin you have that allows you to type a comment without plugging in your values again and again? I love it!

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