This ( http://www.mysql.com/doc/T/a/Table_maintenance.html ) is a good place to start with corrupted MySql databases. If you backup again and run myisamchk on your tables, you could recover the information. There are a couple of other methods. Your Mysql setup information in stored in a file called my.cnf inside your etc directory. Make sure your data directories are pointing to the base dir. e.g. Here is my setup [mysqld] datadir=/var/lib/mysql socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock [mysql.server] user=mysql basedir=/var/lib Restart mysql and httpd if you made those changes (with /etc/init.d/mysqld restart and /etc/init.d/httpd restart from a prompt, logged in as root) Now, once you have that setup correctly, PhpMyAdmin might come to your rescue. On a default install of MySql (both from binaries and compiled) a new database called mysql is created which lists all the users for the mysql server, etc. Make sure you re-create the users and passwords as they existed in your previous […]

Here is an excerpt from a recent thread of conversation from the WP support forums that I like to help out at. I have used the nickname LaughingLizard since my undergrad days. I did nothing special to think of the name, just sounded like I fit right into it. After graduation I wanted to register the name but found some restaurant owner (very lascivious business genre) had registered it already. The desire to name my blog after my nickname had to come to an end for the time being. As for the present name of my blog, I worked very little to acquire it. I love the word muse, worked it around a little, kept in mind that I wanted it to be something that is easily searchable and distinct as a word group, and there it was. As luck would have it, when I could finally afford to purchase […]

CSS Creator Are you tired of hand-coding the CSS that you use for formatting? Or would you rather have a visual guide to help you when choosing backgrounds, font sizes, font colors and more? If so, then you need to check out CSS Creator. From the site: “CSS Creator allows you to choose a style for your Web page. Select different Cascading Style Sheet properties from the page below. To select a color, look for the HTML tag you want to effect, click the field you would like to insert color into, like color or background, then simply click the color you want from the colors grid on the left. Most changes will display on the page as you make them.” …excerpt from: http://www.csscreator.com/version1/index.php

Feedster Builder lets you create an RSS feed for sites that don’t have them. It pings weblogs.com too.

Localfeeds is a nice new service that’s leveraging information from GeoURL. Enter a U.S. or Canadian zip code, and find RSS feeds geographically close to you. Geolocation has always interested me. I can’t wait for the day that I can have a cell phone that will let me post to my blog, and automatically tag the posts with my GPS location. But right now, I’m still locked into a contract with a service that is lagging, technologically. …excerpt from: http://dougal.gunters.org/index.php?p=307&c=1

Are you a seasoned blogger looking for a change? Just getting started? Either way, Josh’s rundown of the different weblog apps makes it falling-off-a-blog easy to choose the right one for you.…excerpt from: http://r.hotwired.com/r/hw_wm_r_mynscp/http://www.webmonkey.com/02/18/index3a.html