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A show of hands how many of you out there has a habit of backing up your blog? No hands? I’m not surprise, I don’t do that too! I’ve read threads in blogging forums, horrifying pleas of help from people who have completely lost their blogs! Lost forever, unable to retrieve their years of hardwork! Since hearing those stroies, a sense of fear of completely losing my blog had always been at the back of my mind. I don’t know aout other blogging platforms, but I’m not even sure if the blogspot platform that I’m blogging from has such a backup service.

Many of us here is using or trying to use our blogs to earn an income online, yet how many of us can proclaim to have purchased “insurance” for our money making tool in the form of backing it up? Being a blogging enthusiast does not make us an expert in IT, internet or HTML coding. I’m pretty sure some of us here don’t even know how to backup a local harddisk, let alone a blog hosted on a foreign server!

Our data and content are unique and valuable, and storing them online also run the risk of it being lost just as easily as data stored on our hard drive. Without a secure backup, our blog content can be lost if a server crashes or if we accidentally delete them. Luckily, I’ve found a free web resource that provides an effortless way to backup, restore and export our blogs. It comes in the form of a website called BlogBackupOnline.com

BlogBackupOnline is a web application that provides backup of your blog content. Provided you even know how to back up at all, trying to manually back up your blog is complex and tedious. BlogBackupOnline allows you to register your blog with a few simple clicks, and then maintains a current copy of your blog content at all times by backing up your blog daily. Set up BlogBackupOnline once and then stop worrying about backup.

Getting Started

Full Backup
Once you have signed up and registered your blog, you will be prompted to start a full backup. Unlike daily backup, a full backup is user activated and not automatic. A full backup can take anywhere from a few seconds to several hours to complete, An example of a large blog with 1500 entries typically requires 2 hours to fully archive.

Daily Backups
When you register a blog, daily backups will be enabled by default. Performing daily incremental backups allows BlogBackupOnline to automatically backup of new entries, comments, and changes to the blog, so a current copy of the blog is always maintained. A daily backup typically takes less than one or two minutes to complete.

Restoring and Switching Blogs
After backing up your blog with BlogBackupOnline, it can be restored to the same blog or even a different blog platform. In the event you need to recall your blog, such as your provider deleting all your content, you can access your saved blog for a full recovery of your blog and free yourself of much hassle and stress. BlogBackupOnline thereby saves you from what would otherwise be a disastrous and irreconcilable loss.

BlogBackupOnline provides its users with peace of mind knowing that their blog is protected from loss. Backing up your blog is free while they are still in Beta. 50mb of storage space is allocated per account. As you can see from the screenshot of my first full backup, 122 posts were backup and the space used are only slightly more than 800KB. With the free 50MB of storage space, one blog can effectively backup at least 6000 posts!!!

Since signing up with BlogBackupOnline, I’ve attained peace of mind, knowing my blog is backup daily and is in good hands. If you have not buy “insurance” for your blogs, I urge you to get your free account with BlogBackupOnline. This seems like a good article to bookmark, don’t you think? The “addthis” social bookmarklet is just at the end of this post.

Special thanks to my friend Adam and Courtney for their valuable feedback provided for the research of this article.

Nearly 50% of this blog’s readers comes from America. I want to take this opportunity, on this joyous day, the 4th of July, to wish all my American readers and my American friends

Everyone should be very familiar with movies rating system that is practice in many countries. In America, the movie rating system is a voluntary system sponsored by the Motion Picture Association of America and the National Association of Theatre Owners to provide parents with advance information on films, enabling parents to make judgments on movies they want or do not want their children to see.

As the gaming industry evolve, even computer and console games have their own rating system. The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) ratings are designed to provide information about the content in computer and video games so consumers, especially parents, can make an informed purchase decision.

As blogging become more mainstream, shouldn’t there be a rating system for blogs too? What if I tell you there is one available?

This tongue-in-cheek blog rating system is provided by the people at Mingle2.com, this blog receive a rather neutral rating of G.

This blog is not RESTRICTED zone, it does not contain ADULT materials, I write articles that are child-safe, and suitable for everyone’s enjoyment. So how does your blog rates? Take the test and let us know.

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As the saying goes, men grow old, we don’t grow up. So it is with great pleasure and long overdue anticipation that I brought my 4-year old son to watch Transformers, his first trip to the cinema!

What a bang it was! Transformers the movie is a demolition derby disguised as a thrilling roller coaster ride, a deafening spectacle from start to end, designed to assault the senses, no less!

Director Michael Bay who built his career blowing up stuff on the big screen, and executive producer Steven Spielberg, go for broke with this US$145 million live-action juggernaut extravaganza! This robotic smackdown realized by state-of-the-art visual effects is indeed a dream come true for me. I hope it worked its magic on my boy’s rite of passage, as much as it had worked for me, 20 years ago!

I am not trying to write a movie review of Transformers, that I’ll leave to the expert reviewers. I’m feeling kind of nostalgic, so ‘ll take this opportunity to walk down memory lane, and come up with some sniplets of Transformers of yesteryears and those of new generation.

Autobots Protect

Optimus Prime (Semi-trailer truck)

For thousands of years, the heroic leader of the autobots has travelled through space in search of the Allspark. He is the personification of courage, strength and integrity. He has held one goal in mind - to protect the universe from the evil Megatron.

BumbleBee (Chevrolet Camaro)
BumbleBee is the ultimate robot in disguise, he is the autospy after all. What he lacks in size and strength, he makes up for with courage.

It used to be a Volkswagon in the old TV series but has now undergone an overhaul and emerge as a Camaro.

IronHide (modified GMC pick-up truck)
Being a Weapons specialist, IronHide is the toughest autobots around. He sees himself as the cold steel fist backing up as Optimus Prime’s personal bodyguard.

Decepticons Destroy

Megatron

Megatron is the evil leader of the Decepticons and the most dangerous transformer in the galaxy. He will stop at nothing to establish his empire and destroy all autobots, starting with Optimus Prime.

It used to transform into a hand gun in the cartoon TV series, but morphs into an evil-looking jet fighter in this movie.

Frenzy (BoomBox)
The antenna-like interceptors on his head can convert human brainwaves into coherent data, affording him limited mind-reading capability.

Barricade (Ford Mustang Police car)

Disguise on earth as a police car, he is a spy for Megatron and find delights in his ability to gain the trust of human, only to destroy it when he changes into his evil form.

Blackout
As a military helicopter, Blackout is the largest Decepticon and is capable of disrupting mechanical devices with its Electrical Magnetic Pulse gun.

Huge and mean machine, Blackout seeks and destroy the enemies o fhis leader.