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Former Vice President Joe Biden talks about fighting cancer during the South by Southwest Conference and Festivals (Photo: Jarrad Handerson/USA TODAY) AUSTIN — Former Vice President Joe Biden called on tech innovators gathered at the SXSW Conference and Festivals to help end the scourge of cancer. "Your generation could be the first generation on earth that goes through life with a completely different understanding of cancer as preventable … instead of a death sentence," he told a room of around 1,000 attendees on Sunday. In an emotional, hour-long, speech, Biden recounted the advances of the White House Moonshot Cancer initiative he led and the challenges that lay ahead. The initiative was created last year by Biden's former boss, former President Barack Obama, and brought together a variety of experts with the task of speeding up cancer research and ultimately ending the disease. Biden's son, Beau Biden, died of brain cancer two years ago at age 46. "You'r...

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I have to say I miss it. It's been almost 3 years since I launched Freally, and it was one of my first project I launched properly and ran for about 9 months, before my unsettling mind got distracted by other projects. Well, I've spent about 3 weeks considering my options and what would involve for me to rebuild Freally. I've now decided - it shall be re-designed, re-built. Here's to the next few weeks.

And that's exactly what I did to my Linode the other week - blowing away the core files of Ubuntu and killing all the sites I maintain. Long story short, I have recovered almost all of the sites, but one of the things I have decided was to move my blog from self-hosted WordPress to my old Blogspot site. The self-hosting approach makes sense, until I make a stupid mistake like above. Hopefully, my ramblings aren't too important and I assume BlogSpot would do a far better backup job than I'd ever care for. Here's to my return to BlogSpot.