Why am I buying this?

One my favorite webhosts has been losing entire websites. To protect the guilty party, I won’t provide names yet. Shockingly they keep no backup. Maybe they don’t want to keep me, but I’ll deal with that later. They did offer to give me 1 month of free hosting. Fortunately, only my nonsignificant websites were harmed.

Anyway… I should have established a better backup system. With SiteVault, backups will happen daily, and I’ll receive emails confirmations to prove it.

Tip

If you decide to buy SiteVault, make sure you are clearly identify the directories that should be grabbed. Appartently SiteVault won’t download all folders in a directory unless you say which ones you want.

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Summary:

I purchased SiteVault backup software. SiteVault is a website Backup FTP & MySQL backup tool. It backs up your entire ftp directory and the mysql databases you specify. And do I really have to explain how backing up your website is related to financial success ?

Need another reason to backup and upgrade your software ?

Our friends at Build and Succeed got hacked. That small screenshot is what Build and Succeed looked like when it got hacked. I am not gloryfing the crackers ( evil hackers) and I am not linking to the hacked website. Consider yourself warned… Make sure you have backup.

The concept is simple, work on a group of similar activities all at the same time.

20 Tips for Batching to Save Time and Cut Stress:
“Collect up a group of similar activities and do them all at the same time. This is the main principle behind batching. You could collect up all your e-mail answering, household chores, reading assignments or phone calls and do them at one time.”

Darren Rowse at
How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive:
“I have discovered that most of the activities that I do in my work can be ‘batched’ in one way or another. I have discovered that many ‘urgent’ things can wait and in fact to make them ‘take a number’ and ‘get in line’ brings order to mess.”

Celine rehashes and expands on what Darren Rowse said at
Batch Processing Can Make You More Productive

ZenHabits expands on the topic: “It can also greatly simplify your work day and personal life, as your day won’t be overly chaotic and complicated, you can group similar tasks together and batch process them, and you can be sure of doing the things you really need to do.”
Optimize Your Productivity with Daily, Weekly Routines

Nick Pagan Here’s A Quick Way to Boost Your Productivity – Batch Processing:
“We can boost our productivity by actively organizing our activities to suit the way our minds work. Sometimes this can mean doing all of one type of activity at once, such as making a set of phone calls, dealing with e-mail or correspondence.”

After all, your health is closely related to your wealth.

Some replies on Yahoo Answers
“Just buy a mutual fund or ETF that invests in Chinese stocks. You will get the benefit of effectively holding the Yuan. D” . Response from Heavy D

I know an indirect way. Buy a mutual fund that invests in Chinese stocks or buy Chinese stocks or buy them both. A rise in the Yuan will translate into a rise in the comparative value of the stocks when translated into U S dollars. Actually, the Chinese stocks will most likely outperform the U S stocks during the next 5, 10 and 20 years so you will potentially receive a double benefit.

Here are a couple of Chinese stocks traded as ADRs: CHL and ACH

Here are a couple of closed end mutual funds currently selling at whopping discounts to net assets: CHN, TDF.
Response from muncie birder

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