What happened
I upgraded wordpress from 2.3.2 to 2.3.3 because there are security holes in 2.3.2 and also because wordpress reminds you to upgrade and I got sick of looking at the upgrade reminder. And somehow this upgrade, which changed out three or four tiny files, wiped out my database. So I lost most of January and what I had of February so far.
Ok, so I have a backup of my database and I went to restore it but for some reason it wouldn’t take. (That’s why my theme looks funky and my sidebars are empty.) I have no idea why and the wordpress geeks have no idea why. These are the kinds of things that shouldn’t happen. Because I have about 50 megs of entries on here it took a long, long time to strip the exported file down to something manageable to import. (About two hours to be exact. And this was after I did some handy-dandy footwork to get the content, which would take too long to explain but of which I am very proud because I had to get quite creative to figure out a work-around.) Then because I hadn’t backed up since 1/7, I had to go and swipe my other content from livejournal even though there was at least a week the crossposter wouldn’t work that I’m missing and I was too tired to strip out the “this post originally appeared on” header. I also lost all of your lovely comments.
But at least most of it is here.
And now I’ll back my database up once a month. (Wordpress has a plugin to do this but my site is so big that it sometimes times out. I messed with a setting and hopefully it’ll work now.)
I swear — I’m having the worst blog luck so far this year. I think my horoscope said something about that…
Yeep. Have you considered sacrificing a fatted calf to the blog gods?
Oh, I’m so sorry!! After I saw the site was down I worried a bit, but I knew you were going to tell us what happened later. But I kept thinking of you all day long… And I have to remember that I used to rank close to 170 in comments (that’s probably gone too, right? I enjoyed it while it lasted — my “fame” as one of your top commenters ;). Well, I hope things get better as the year goes by, but it is a bit unnerving to have so much happen to your blog in such a short time!
your feed history on bloglines goes back forever and a day. Do you want a c/p of the missing time blogs?
Hopefully this is it for the year, no? eesh.
I’m not updating on this one then. It was only for those who allow people to register on their blogs and I don’t so it’s pointless for me anyway.
I am just glad you’re back!