(Tap, tap....testing, testing...one, two three...) Miss Me?
Apr/22/2008 12:40 AM Filed in: Life Happens
If everything goes according to plan (and it seldom
does...) you're reading the first new blog entry from
my in about three months.
I'd like to hope that's been strange for some of you, as I know we had many regular readers back around Christmastime.
But, alas, due to technical difficulties completely within my control, I had a major website mess on my hands at the end of January.
One morning, in a hurry to get out the door, and wishing only to erase a small "SD" card that was leftover from my last Treo, I inadvertently erased my main hard drive back up disk. A bonehead move...totally my fault. Just selected the wrong icon and hit "OK."
It took about five seconds for about a hundred gigs, and ten years of files, to vanish. It took me about six seconds to realize what I had done and let out a blood curdling scream.
Thank God for data recovery software. That's the good news. The bad news is that even if it recovers all your files, it can't recover the things you originally named them. Add to this, I hadn't done a complete back up of my website since about November of 2006.
All this is to say, even though I've been real silent, blog-wise, I've been ridiculously busy, recovering files, and trying to recreate the website from the point of my last backup.
If everything goes according to plan (and, as I said, it seldom does...) I am mostly done with the rebuilding, and you are reading my first blog entry in 90 days.
Didja miss me?
If this works, I will let out a similarly loud scream (of joy this time) and then head to bed...promising to catch everybody up on a day very soon.
I'd like to hope that's been strange for some of you, as I know we had many regular readers back around Christmastime.
But, alas, due to technical difficulties completely within my control, I had a major website mess on my hands at the end of January.
One morning, in a hurry to get out the door, and wishing only to erase a small "SD" card that was leftover from my last Treo, I inadvertently erased my main hard drive back up disk. A bonehead move...totally my fault. Just selected the wrong icon and hit "OK."
It took about five seconds for about a hundred gigs, and ten years of files, to vanish. It took me about six seconds to realize what I had done and let out a blood curdling scream.
Thank God for data recovery software. That's the good news. The bad news is that even if it recovers all your files, it can't recover the things you originally named them. Add to this, I hadn't done a complete back up of my website since about November of 2006.
All this is to say, even though I've been real silent, blog-wise, I've been ridiculously busy, recovering files, and trying to recreate the website from the point of my last backup.
If everything goes according to plan (and, as I said, it seldom does...) I am mostly done with the rebuilding, and you are reading my first blog entry in 90 days.
Didja miss me?
If this works, I will let out a similarly loud scream (of joy this time) and then head to bed...promising to catch everybody up on a day very soon.