Wow, what a night in paradise. The first night here the wonderful folk diagonally across the road were playing music and talking well after midnight. It wasnt super loud, but a clear indication they couldn’t care less. There is a heap of Kiwis camped over 2 sites and last night at 11pm it wasn’t looking like they were intending to abide by the 9.30pm curfew and obviously the caravan park doesnt bother keeping an eye on things.
Ross and Barb were still awake and Barb wandered over and asked them quieten down, which went around like a dead Rosella on a stick. A good decision for Ross to let this go through to the keeper.
Around 3.00am they erupted into drunken brawl and running battle around their campsite and out onto the street. They were screaming, yelling and swearing, threatening each other and physically fighting …. “choice bro”, nice one.
Today we head into Sydney or more particularly Lane Cove for 4 days. We’re going to Sydney because Sydney is on Daniel’s bucket list and he wants to see the Opera House, bridge and the city.
The Lane Cove caravan park is a State Parks and Wildlife operated park on the boundary of the Lane Cove national Park and Lane Cove River, north of the city of Sydney.
We drove into Sydneys north over the magnificent Hawkebury River. Sydney is an awesome city to drive into from the north … until you get to the burbs.
The drive through the burbs to North Ryde feels like we’re driving aroud in a big circle.
We found our way to the Lane Cove caravan park and pitched camp. The park is apparently full with a ‘no vacancy’ sign out front, but there are quite a few empty sites dotted around.
We headed off to a doctor to have Daniels foot wart checked out and then grabbed some groceries before heading back to camp.
We had a major blog collapse a few days ago when the blogs database seemed to fail, producing this screen to anyone who tried to look at it. The collapse also rendered the interface Ross uses to create the blog to disappear completely. For those that are following so far, we still had Cpanel and FTP access.
This was a completely new issue that Ross has never encountered before. We host our own blog on our server space that Ross uses for his business, and the blog programing is installed on that server. Over the many years we’ve been blogging we’ve had a few issues but not like this. It catastrophe that may have corrupted the database where all our blog data is store. Having the blog hosted on a commercial host would have alleviated these issues, and to compound the issue the technical support for Ross’s server host wont touch programs running on the servers.
Louise …. Jen, hello …. help. You picked a shit time to abandon us. Ross wants to sit outside with a Creaming Cobbler whilst you guys fix this mumbo jumbo.
After trolling the InterGoogle Web, Ross researched the issue and through a series of trial and error experiments discovered a data matching issue in 2 of the many blog programs PHP programing files. Ross was pretty sure that he didnt really want to learn PHP programing. The first tests were reassuring in that the database itself was intact and not corrupted.
After a frustrating and nervous few hours the issue was resolved and the blog reappeared like nothing had ever been wrong in the first place.
Now … we better create the server side file backup that we pobably should have done 100 times before.
Bullet dodged
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