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A cron job is a command that will run at a scheduled time. My website host allows me to set up cron jobs through the CPanel interface. Now I know I can use the serendipity backup plugin to do this but it only backups up the database to a directory on the server. IMO this does not serve much purpose since a backup should always be placed on a different system to the one being backed up. I think a simple approach is to email myself the backup. So I use a cron job to backup my database. Its a series of piped commands:

My third serendipity blog theme RoundedCorner is available for download. I have been tinkering with this theme for quite a while now and I finally decided that it was good enough for release. However, it might still have a few bugs in it so please tell me if you find any.

This theme isn't particularly fancy looking but developing it has taught me a lot. It is full of rounded rectangles created in photoshop and converted into code. It is also standards based with valid xhtml and css. At the time of writing this theme is in use on my site and you can try and validate it by clicking on the icons in the right sidebar. RoundedCorner is also a pure css theme except for the calendar plugin. You can download it here.

America's lap dog Israel is at it again. Massacring Lebanese citizens by the hundreds. It has already ventured into one Lebanese town and I think a full scale invasion is not too far away. I think Israel is simply following America's orders. America wants to destroy Muslim countries and this is just one more step in that direction. They are targetting shia countries first fully aware that sunni countries will not risk a war for shias. Iran is almost certainly going to be next. And then they'll target the sunni dominated countries like Syria.

By attacking Lebanon they are trying to provoke Syria and Iran into joining the conflict thereby giving the Americans an excuse to attack them. Bush's greed for oil wealth seems neverending. What's amazing is that the leadership of the Muslim countries is fully aware of this and seems to be unwilling to defend their countries. Are they just to going to lie down and roll over? Or are they going to unite and fight?